Writing Quotes · Page 243

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

— Iris Chang

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

— Paul Greengrass

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.”

— Kelly Moran

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

— Jewel

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

— Rayne Hall

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I…

— Patton Oswalt

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of…

— Frank Ocean

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now,…

— Charlie Kaufman

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good…

— M.V. Carey

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it…

— Hal David

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this…

— Ben Feldman

For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding,…

— Ted Rall

“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a…

— Randy Ingermanson

So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been…

— Moshe Kasher

“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that…

— Fred Kaplan

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

— Confucius

“In order to be written into History; one must first change it.”

— Darrius Garrett

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

“The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.”

— Ron Chernow

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

— Octavia Spencer

When I was writing 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' I knew the perfect Bajrangi Bhaijaan would be Salman.

— Kabir Khan

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

— Izzy Stradlin

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

— Chath Piersath

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

— Isaac Watts

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

— Christian Bauman

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King