Writing Quotes · Page 245

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

— Georges Simenon

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

— John Dryden

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

— Danielle Steel

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

— David Crosby

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”

— Heywood Broun

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is…

— Jill Talbot

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written…

— Adrian Pasdar

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to…

— James Lasdun

“The biblical writings have an inherent authority as works uniquely inspired by God. Canonization is the process of recognizing that inherent authority,…

— Robert L. Plummer

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

— Clive Owen

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that…

— Martin Amis

I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as…

— Billy Bragg

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,…

— Jonathan Swift

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or…

— George R. R. Martin

I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort…

— Mark Leyner

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my…

— Tavi Gevinson

When I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm…

— Lupe Fiasco

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of…

— Chloe Pirrie

Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen…

— Martha Ronk

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

— Richard Steele

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

— Lucy Hale

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

— Judd Apatow

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

— Hilary Hahn

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

— Mark Frost

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

— Anthony Liccione

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

— Adrienne Rich

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi