Writing Quotes · Page 239

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

— Daniel Woodrell

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

— Dar Williams

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

— Dennis Potter

I can't write when it's silent. But the music can't have lyrics.

— Marie Lu

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because…

— James Joyce

Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and…

— A.L. Kennedy

I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is…

— Leila Slimani

Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself…

— Jillian Michaels

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

— Kenneth Tynan

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by…

— Hilary Mantel

“To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul…

— Marcus G Monroe

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody…

— Bill Frisell

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually…

— Carolyn Kizer

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would…

— Margaret Mead

What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has…

— Cynthia Ozick

Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable…

— Sol Stein

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of…

— Robertson Davies

“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront…

— Dorothy Allison

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,…

— Eduardo Galeano

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Anonymous

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

— Scott Adams

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

— Amy Lee

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

— Ted Shackelford

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

— Anonymous

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

— William Monahan

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

— Tarja Turunen

I feel the calling internally but I'm so lost on the surface..

— Raghib Clitso

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

— Edmund White

“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place”

— Alan Dapre

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

— Ann Patchett

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

— Roger Rosenblatt