Writing Quotes · Page 289

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

— Frederick Busch

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

— Guy Kawasaki

“I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much.”

— Nurina Izzati

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

— Lee Pace

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

— Ralph Keyes

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

— Joe Walsh

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

— Alexander Pope

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm…

— Elmore Leonard

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the…

— Anonymous

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made…

— Samuel Johnson

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…

— Tracy Kidder

“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see”

— Marwa Helal

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a…

— T. R. Pearson

The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them…

— Needa Muy

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs…

— Vikram Seth

Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is…

— Lucio Russo

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that…

— Yuna

“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows…

— Susan Wojcicki

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high…

— Deborah Ellis

“When my sons asked the reason for my trip, I said that I needed to conduct research for my book. What is…

— Nicole Krauss

“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation…

— Elisa Lorello

I think especially in academia, we are coached to go the route of paying to submit our writing to small publications, like…

— Stephanie Land

“If you can write; then you are a writer - Rayvon L Browne”

— Anonymous

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.

— Jessica St. Clair

“Binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians.”

— Paul J. Silvia

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

— Geoff Dyer

“To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.”

— Anonymous

If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

— Clive Cussler

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

— Barry Gibb

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

“Your intuition already knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury