Writing Quotes · Page 304

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

— Wallace Shawn

“Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.”

— Joël Dicker

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

— Penn Jillette

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

— Michael Ian Black

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

— John Lancaster Spalding

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

— James A. Michener

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

— Abi Morgan

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see…

— Thornton Wilder

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job…

— Anton Chekhov

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great…

— Karrine Steffans

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called…

— Annette O'Toole

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any…

— Ayn Rand

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

— John Doerr

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental…

— Janine Benyus

“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages…

— Rainbow Rowell

Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and…

— Nalini Singh

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is…

— Anonymous

Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never…

— David Morrell

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is…

— El-P

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than…

— John Gardner

That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.”

— Sharen Song

Whirlpool often stuck for ideas, you do not write the quote, you wanted to write

— Mak_786

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

— Alicia Keys

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

— Darren Fletcher

“When I write my only difficulty is to be able to stop”

— MBarreto Condado

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

— Anonymous

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

— Haruki Murakami

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

— Bob Seger

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

— Ashly Lorenzana

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

— Ada Leverson

“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.”

— Dodong Charing

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

— Jean Giraudoux

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

— Armistead Maupin