Writing Quotes · Page 26

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

— The D.O.C

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

— Stephanie Connolly

I've always written down how I feel.

— Adele

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

— Lisa Unger

I would love to write a Broadway musical.

— Seth Macfarlane

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

— Regina King

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

— Richard Peck

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

— Steven Knight

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

— Anonymous

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

— Franz Kafka

I would have never thought to write a memoir, but I'm glad I did it.

— Erika Jayne

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

— Anne Fadiman

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

— Richard LaGravenese

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

— James Broughton

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I…

— Michaela Coel

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to…

— Mario Benedetti

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

— Morgan Wallen

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room…

— Melissa Rosenberg

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

— Eric Heisserer

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of…

— Kevin Barry

I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the…

— Coco Jones

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think…

— Judy Woodruff

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to…

— Cyril Connolly

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck…

— David Ives

“What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me…

— Donald Richie

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I…

— Barbara Hamby

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that…

— Luvvie Ajayi

Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single…

— John Lescroart

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight…

— Joe Mynhardt

“If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Life is a faerytale written by God's hand.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

Inspiration is for amateurs.

— Anonymous

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

If I had more time, I would have written less.

— Mark Twain

“Writers are introverts that know how to talk.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”

— Anonymous