Writing Quotes · Page 238

“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“What’s writing anyway, but us ghosts in here singing?”

— Michael Stutz

“When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.”

— K.J. Parker

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

— Abraham Lincoln

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

— robert m drake

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

— Carson McCullers

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

— Brendan O'Carroll

I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and…

— Lil Rel Howery

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer…

— Bo Burnham

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with…

— Helen Dunmore

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in…

— Richard Matheson

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The…

— Margaret Atwood

“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire…

— Jarod Kintz

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many…

— Christine de Pizan

Through the years, I have always enjoyed anything Chuck Swindoll has written. When I first got into writing Chuck's books really modeled…

— Max Lucado

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people…

— Sasa Stanisic

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some…

— Alex Garland

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches…

— Rob Lowe

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a…

— Walter Benjamin

The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as…

— Pankaj Mishra

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I…

— Paul Auster

“So what if I fall? I know I will never fall as hard as i fell for you.”

— Timothy Joshua

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

— Ridley Scott

“A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.”

— Carol Morgan

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

— Billie Eilish

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

— George Carlin

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”

— Dr. Poison King

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

— Anonymous

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'

— Jaboukie Young-White

I should have written books instead of reading them.

— Alan Lightman

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

— Etgar Keret

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry