Writing Quotes · Page 203

Cheers pal. I do apprceiate the writing.

— Anonymous

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

— Steven Brust

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

— Chris Cleave

You have to write what you know.

— Taika Waititi

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

— Jesse Kellerman

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

To write love on her arms.

— Anonymous

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

— Harlan Ellison

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

— Juvenal

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

— Nayvadius Cash

“I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.”

— Jules Haigler

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

— Neil Gaiman

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

— William J. Clinton

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all…

— Per Petterson

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming…

— Maggie Smith

My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or…

— Giveon

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

— William Soutar

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Vitamin D,” Stevie said. “You need it.” “You don’t know that,” he said. “I want to eat my meat in my room…

— Maureen Johnson

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,…

— Steven Johnson

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great…

— Ford Madox Ford

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…

— Robert Macfarlane

! What are you doing here?? And how did you know this was my room?? I was slightly weirded out. I said…

— Jade

Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take…

— Sathya Sai Baba

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're…

— Travis Beacham

“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills…

— John Varley

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

— Harper Lee

I write folky tunes, like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.

— Noah Reid

“Write to be understood not to impress.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

— Karla Crome

We love writing hit songs. That thrills us.

— Matthew Ramsey

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson