Writing Quotes · Page 262

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

— Jerry Coleman

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

— Pete Wentz

Oh, written in the stars. A million miles away. A message to the main..Ooooh.

— Tinie Tempah

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

— Betty White

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

— Pico Iyer

“The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.”

— C. Kennedy

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is…

— David Benioff

“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.”

— Pat Conroy

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my…

— Henry Moore

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the…

— Robert Caro

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then…

— Jenny Han

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It's like when I started writing 'X-Men.' Our 'meat…

— Chris Claremont

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I…

— Salman Rushdie

“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl…

— robert m drake

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a…

— Chuck Klosterman

with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I write to remind myself of the pain. My words represents the tears that have fell, the paper resembles the words and…

— Anonymous

If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it…

— B. B. Warfield

You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,…

— Donald Trump

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

— Eric Morecambe

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

New writers don't throw tantrums, they have time. I can make them work on one song for a week.

— Rajesh Roshan

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

— William Hague

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

— Jon Stewart

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

— Tavi Gevinson

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

— Anonymous

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

— Joe Elliott

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

— Gore Vidal

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

— Anonymous

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

— Pamela Harriman

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

— Ruth Ware

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

— Francis Chan