Writing Quotes · Page 266

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

— Stanley Kunitz

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

— Matthea Harvey

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

— Abi Morgan

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.

— John Cheever

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

— Ghostface Killah

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Dn't compare with your love story with that of a movie because they are written by script writers...Your love story is written…

— Shubham Joshi

“I have so many people in my head, I can't keep up with the real people around me. But it's okay, I'm…

— Shannon Taylor Vannatter

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses…

— Michael Haneke

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to…

— Harlan Coben

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I…

— Drew Barrymore

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will…

— Anonymous

I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that…

— John Lanchester

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of…

— Piri Thomas

“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being'…

— Robert Kegan

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not…

— Rita Dove

The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more…

— Mary Worley Montagu

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy.…

— Steve Coogan

As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice…

— Ishmael Reed

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is…

— Maurice Sendak

“If we think of grades as an opportunity to shine a light on what we value in the whole of writing and…

— Patty McGee

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.”

— Carlos Bulosan

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

— Jean Houston

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

— Theodore Sturgeon

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

— Stephen King

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

— Frank Herbert

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

— Edward Gorey

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

— Anne Lamott

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

— Jennifer Weiner

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

— Jim Watt

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

— E. M. Forster

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

— Julia Cameron