Writing Quotes · Page 25

As writers we need to crack open language.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Trust me, I write fiction.”

— Rob Mahan

Worry destroys the ability to write.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The hard part is putting one word after another.”

— Jo Linsdell

We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.

— Miriam Toews

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.

— Richard M. Sherman

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

— Alan Sugar

She is written in a foreign tongue.

— Henry James

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

— Woody Allen

I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.

— Prue Leith

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

— Robert Ben Garant

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

— Robert Frost

I moved to California in 2011 to be a writer. A family friend told me to take acting classes so I could…

— Jovan Adepo

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so…

— Fan Bingbing

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

To be considered part of the fashion zeitgeist is fun, but it will never steal my focus from my qualifications as a…

— Melissa Leong

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at…

— Toni Morrison

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

— Walter Raleigh

“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.”

— Stewart Stafford

“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is…

— Zaeema J. Hussain

...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his…

— Russell T Davies

“It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it…

— Khaled Hosseini

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary,…

— Roald Dahl

“THE SCRIBE Under the wings Of the feathered Goddess And in the middle Of the three dancing women, The scribe comes alive…

— Suzy Kassem

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc…

— Vincent Piazza

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer…

— David Leavitt

If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all…

— Caitlin Moran

“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased…

— Andrew Sullivan

Bravery was really just love and patience..

— Raghib Clitso

I have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

“What is Spoken Flies, What is Written Never Dies”

— F. E. Higgens

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

— Shannon Hale

“Horror is best written in the dark.”

— Dennis McDonald

“My heart is bigger than my fist.”

— Jill Telford

I can't envisage stopping writing.

— Antony Beevor

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

— Felix Frankfurter