Writing Quotes · Page 293

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

— Gulzar

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

— John Edensor Littlewood

“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.”

— C.G. Coppola

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that…

— Walter Cronkite

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

— Ernest Hemingway

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another…

— Ravi Subramanian

The truth is that 'Twilight' is not a story about Bella and Jacob. It's a story about Bella and Edward. That was…

— Rebecca Serle

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to…

— Dito Montiel

“the time coming when I can endure to read my own writing in print without blushing—shivering and wishing to take cover?”

— Virginia Woolf

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

— Rachel Field

“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and…

— L.L. Barkat

Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have…

— Shane McCrae

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to…

— Kirsten Vangsness

As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,…

— Ross Douthat

Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay…

— Fred Alan Wolf

"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the…

— Joan Baez

“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another…

— Orson Scott Card

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music.…

— Stephen Hough

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a…

— Ishmael Reed

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

— Doris Betts

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

— Leni Zumas

“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day…

— Stephanie Michel

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

— Tori Amos

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

— Alan Lightman

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

— Patrick Dennis

There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

— Mick Hucknall

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin