Writing Quotes · Page 295

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

— Rob Reiner

“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.”

— Paige Skyler

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

— Christopher Markus

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”

— Ivor W. Hartmann

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

— Sam Tsui

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

— Hemant Mehta

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and…

— Jesse Spencer

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

— William Shenstone

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

— Masiela Lusha

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society…

— Sharon Olds

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's…

— George Saunders

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not…

— Anonymous

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

— Wole Soyinka

“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered…

— Frederick Buechner

“immediately commenced copying them, and in a short time was able to make the four letters named. After that, when I met…

— Frederick Douglass

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying…

— Henry Miller

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either…

— Peter McWilliams

“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is…

— Akash Karia

“Rippling through these letters,’ Kemp detects, ‘are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the…

— Anonymous

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed…

— David Sheff

“Some writers are the kind of solo violinists who need complete silence to tune their instruments. Others want to hear every member…

— Zadie Smith

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

— Kate Morton

“Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard”

— GBickle

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

— Anne Rice

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

— James N. Frey

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

— Paul Rust

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

— Elif Batuman

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

— Alice Mattison

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

— Aldous Huxley

“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.”

— Kelly Gallagher

Twitter is a competition to write the most retweeted witticisms.

— Justin Kan

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

— Nora Roberts

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

— Alanis Morissette

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

— William Shakespeare