Writing Quotes · Page 275

The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone.

— Anna Todd

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

— Robert Bresson

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

— Jean Fritz

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

— Nick Carter

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

— Horace

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there…

— Lauren Carr

My life is a story, and I am the author, but i've written in pen so the mistakes i've made cannot be…

— Briana

Many people worked hard in order to create 'Crash Landing on You.' I am grateful to the writer, the directors, and all…

— Hyun Bin

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more…

— Richard K. Morgan

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as…

— Jane Yolen

One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to…

— Veronica Roth

“Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston…

— Kate Inglis

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I try to be open-minded. And yet this food writer has less sense than God gave a goose about where food comes…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Early in my career I was much more confident in the almost omniscient powers of a reporter, because you could find anything…

— David Grann

Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and…

— Joshua Redman

I wish it had been something as sexy as the old Joey Tribbiani, falling-down-an-elevator shaft. But no. It just faded out. I…

— Teddy Sears

And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

— Malachy McCourt

I particularly like writing on planes. You've got nothing else to do but concentrate.

— Rick Stein

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

— Katie Chang

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

— Kyle Korver

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

— Nick Flynn

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

— John Steinbeck

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

— Stephen Greenblatt

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

— Elaine Stritch

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal