Writing Quotes · Page 30

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

“Explore many facets of the written word.”

— Anonymous

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

“Write and read and you shall be good to succeed.”

— Emma Coray

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

— Lillian Hellman

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

“I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong”

— Vicki M. Taylor

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”

— Tim Fargo

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment”

— Dennis Lynds

“Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna] "They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]”

— Cassandra Rose Clarke

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

— Greg van Eekhout

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing…

— Tillie Olsen

There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I…

— Sylvia Plath

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about…

— Richard Eyre

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I…

— Jenny Han

As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of…

— Julianne Malveaux

I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of…

— Yuna

“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I…

— George Orwell

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he…

— Anonymous

“The book was sloppily written in many parts (the words came too quickly and too easily) and there was hardly a noun…

— Norman Mailer

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the…

— Claire Messud

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield

I'm a conservative classical writer.

— Peter Handke

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

— Alan Jay Lerner

I wrote a thousand words every day

— Jack London

Writing a book is not a crime.

— Alexander Ahndoril

“I write what I like to read.”

— Johnny Worthen

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway