Writing Quotes · Page 251

“His writing was quite jaunty and explicit—I should never”

— Anonymous

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

— Jonny Lang

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

— Stanley Elkin

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

— Saul Bellow

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

— Anonymous

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

— William Shakespeare

“I can't have my perfect love story but my characters will have.”

— R.K. Valka

“An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned.…

— Ann Patchett

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you…

— Peter Jacobson

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to…

— Erin Morgenstern

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with…

— Aretha Franklin

I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but…

— Tracy Letts

We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.

— David Bryan

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production…

— Pusha T

“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re…

— Will Raywood

I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts.…

— Lisa Papademetriou

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I…

— Bob Schieffer

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in…

— Colson Whitehead

Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were…

— Andy Wilkinson

“Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items…

— Clive Barker

I think it's satisfying for people to feel that that relationship is reciprocal in some way. The truth is, you do have…

— Matt Nix

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and…

— James Dyson

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

— Lincoln Child

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

— Jorja Smith

Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.

— Josh Silver

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

— Meg Wolitzer

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

— Jack Kerouac

If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

— Robert Ben Garant

If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.

— Matthew Warchus

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

— Matthew Reilly

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

— Henry Rollins

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

— Steven Wright

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

— Alain de Botton

“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

— Seamus Heaney

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

— Camila Cabello

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.”

— T.J. Mihaila

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

— Carlos Fuentes