Writing Quotes · Page 291

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

— John Donne

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

— Helen DeWitt

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”

— Truman Capote

Every word that I say is true all I write its only for you..

— Nishant Grover

“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!”

— Avijeet Das

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

— Aristotle

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

— Grace Paley

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing.…

— Joseph Kanon

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering,…

— Charles Darwin

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine…

— Ba Jin

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and…

— Jonny Lang

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of…

— Vikram Chandra

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write…

— Topher Grace

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words…

— Anonymous

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got…

— Sly Stone

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known…

— Alan Watts

A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But…

— James M. Cain

I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“Writing it down is the way I make it real, the way I find my way into what it is I feel.…

— James Howe

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

— Suzanne Curchod

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

— Stef Penney

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

— Dolly Parton

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

— Blaise Pascal

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

— Marc Cherry

Maybe one day I'll write a full-blown tell-all book.

— Ariana Madix

“it was better written than 50 Shades of I Can’t Write for Shit.”

— Michael Finocchiaro

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

— Dolly Parton

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

— Joss Whedon

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus