Writing Quotes · Page 311

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

— Khalil Gibran

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

— Tim Robinson

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

— Kara Hayward

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…

— Yann Martel

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt…

— Elena Tonra

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that…

— Steven Spielberg

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty…

— Tracy Letts

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and…

— Kathleen Rooney

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…

— John Fowles

“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class…

— H.G. Wells

But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I…

— Sarah Kay

You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean…

— Rod Serling

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent…

— Sheila Heti

I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the…

— Patricia Briggs

I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was…

— Ann Voskamp

It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes,…

— Jason Sudeikis

When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I…

— Ted Kooser

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

— George Harrison

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

— Julia Leigh

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

— Cameron Conaway

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

— Jack Smith

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

— Arthur Schnitzler

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

— Frank Peretti

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

— Anonymous

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

— Asne Seierstad

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

— E. B. White

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan