Writing Quotes · Page 31

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

— Richard Attenborough

“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”

— Bob Mayer

Full purse makes no noise.

— Juhani Peltonen

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

I just write when fear overtakes me.

— Fran Lebowitz

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

— Gordon Lish

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination.

— Arlo Parks

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

— Mason Cooley

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

— Jim Lehrer

I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.

— Leo Sayer

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

— Ambrose Bierce

“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is…

— Tim LaHaye

I take in a lot of different styles when I listen to music, but when I'm actually writing a song it comes…

— Guy Sebastian

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a…

— Cynthia Ozick

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn…

— James Dashner

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in…

— Haruki Murakami

Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No,…

— Olivia Williams

I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always…

— AJ Lee

I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both…

— Margaret Maron

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When you have filmmakers like Justin Simien, writers, producers, actresses like Lena Waithe, who are people of color, they're creating their own…

— Teyonah Parris

I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want…

— Tom Robbins

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining…

— Dave Eggers

Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything…

— Steve Bunce

One hates an author that's all author.

— Lord Byron

“Write or don't write. There is only try.”

— Kim Smith

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

— Kate McKinnon

Never write a letter when you are angry.

— Nikhil Saluja

To choose to write is to reject silence.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

— Carlos J. Cortes

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress