Writing Quotes · Page 260

“If only my sunscreen was as good as my writers block!”

— Martin Link

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

— Bell Hooks

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.

— Ayobami Adebayo

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

— Marlee Matlin

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that…

— Masiela Lusha

“I felt Matt exorcising his turmoil in the prose. Only a few people would know the truth of this fiction.”

— M. Pierce

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the…

— Bryant H. McGill

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.

— Paul Lansky

Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

— Edmund White

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I…

— James Salter

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world…

— Isaiah Washington

Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a…

— Matt Mullenweg

We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal…

— Carla Azar

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff…

— James Mercer

I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at…

— Augusten Burroughs

Teen magazines keep writing that my eyes ´twinkle´ when I talk. Look, I´m a guy. I don´t twinkle, you know! You can…

— Jonathan Brandis

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and…

— Wayne Dyer

I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer,…

— Kaya Scodelario

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.”

— Amit Kalantri

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

— Grant Heslov

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

— Ken Follett

“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.”

— Stephen King

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

— Peter Matthiessen

“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”

— Anne Lamott

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

— Alanis Morissette

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

— Farhan Akhtar

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

— Theodora Goss

“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.”

— Omar Kiam

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

— Bill Gates