Writing Quotes · Page 261

I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.

— Stephen Collins

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

— e. e. cummings

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

— Art Buchwald

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

— Kim Carnes

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

— Alison Bechdel

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

— David Mamet

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

— Charles Spurgeon

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you…

— James J. Kilpatrick

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how…

— Tink

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes,…

— James Patterson

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

— Flora Tristan

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

— Jo Brand

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see…

— Markus Zusak

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write…

— John Lyly

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to…

— Erica Jong

I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,…

— Matthew Zapruder

I shall write something beautiful, profound… I have of late, yet wherfore I know not… Wait…that is Shakespeare…ummm… I know… I went…

— Eric Nickel

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,…

— Richard Rohr

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world.…

— Markus Zusak

I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do…

— Earl Sweatshirt

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because…

— Terry Pratchett

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the…

— Jimmy Breslin

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

— Mat Kearney

“That’s some awkward prose right there. Awkward like a Redditor talking to women.”

— Anonymous

“...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.”

— Kate Berridge

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

— John Steinbeck

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

— Gustave Flaubert

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”

— Laurence Bradbury

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

— Brian P. Cleary

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

— Petrarch

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

— Michael Franti

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

— William Blake

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

— Elizabeth Crook