Writing Quotes · Page 237

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

— William Shenstone

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

— Poul Anderson

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

— Alex Hirsch

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

— Joy Williams

I'm about to lock it so I'ma write this letter Was your day okay? Is your mother better? I'ma put this bid…

— Tony Yayo

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

— Robert Frost

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

— Donald McKay

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,…

— Ray Bradbury

When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I…

— Jimmy Bennett

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing…

— Janet Burroway

“Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. “My botherations often won’t let me work,”11 he complained. He”

— Jack Lynch

“Authors...keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less…

— Timothy Pina

Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed,…

— Pablo Neruda

I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point…

— Laura Marling

When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of…

— Stephen King

“One of my biggest influences as a writer is J. K. Rowling . I grew up with Harry Potter. One thing I…

— Angie Thomas

“Just as writers rely on editors, they should be allowed to use AI tools to refine their books. If it is acceptable…

— Mouloud Benzadi

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…

— Neil Gaiman

I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast…

— Ryan Murphy

I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with…

— Daniel Coyle

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

— Gulzar

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

— Marsai Martin

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

— Benjamin Franklin

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

— Alexander Pope

Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one.

— Tara Moss

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

— Billy Sherwood

“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.”

— Toi Thomas

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

— Vijay

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

— Boris Pasternak

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

— Barry Mann

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

— Plato

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

— Taylor Swift

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

— Dolly Parton

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

— Ellen Gilchrist