Writing Quotes · Page 277

“For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it’s all critical.”

— Christina Katz

“When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.”

— C.E.McLean

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

— Frank Zappa

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The negligence was worth the negative cause you've gain intelligence..

— Raghib Clitso

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very…

— Thom Gunn

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working…

— Bill Hader

“Our schools have a doubly hard task, not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.”

— Ken Robinson

“A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at…

— C.J. Heck

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing,…

— Mija

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with…

— Kenneth Lonergan

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the…

— Hoagy Carmichael

“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Aside from the possible scientific explanations for the death of ballsiness, there is an economic one, which I think may be the…

— Jonathan Ames

“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists…

— John Hirst

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict… ever since I became loosely involved…

— Nora Ephron

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there…

— Corbin Bernsen

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in…

— Stephen Hunter

I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling…

— Caroline Polachek

“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they…

— Shaun Tan

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

— Spike Jonze

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.”

— David Rose

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

— Gary Soto

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

— Indira Gandhi

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

— Thom Yorke

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

— Anonymous

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

— Walter Bagehot

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

— Paul Theroux

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

— Tony Gilroy

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

— Dennis Cooper