Writing Quotes · Page 3

I write my own tweets.

— Don Rickles

I over-write!

— Michaela Coel

“Why I Write,”

— Thomas E Ricks

“You are what you write.”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

“I write for the unborn.”

— Hortense Caruthers

I love writing comedy.

— Mark Waid

I write in the studio.

— Macy Gray

I prefer type than write

— Pipim Prima

“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

We write to discover what we think.

— Joan Didion

“You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.”

— M. Kirin

I never read anything that's written about me.

— Pilou Asbaek

“I am more well known for quotes than books.”

— Steven Magee

The writer's job is to get naked...

— Harry Crews

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

— Dario Argento

“Writer's block is just another name for fear.”

— Jacob Nordby

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

— Gail Tsukiyama

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

— John Dryden

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I…

— Joan Didion

Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what…

— Rajpal Yadav

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

— Toni Cade Bambara

I write short stories and I write things here and there. I think as an actor, it's really important to at least…

— Mike Faist

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's…

— John Boyne

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are…

— Henri Nouwen

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in…

— Simon Beaufoy

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about…

— Paul Theroux

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have…

— Gayle Forman

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration…

— Henry David Thoreau

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like…

— Steven Tyler

“But she had to write. And one letter to the Times, she used to say to Miss Brush, cost her more than…

— Virginia Woolf

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets…

— Ali Liebegott