Writing Quotes · Page 319

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

How one supposed to grow if you're generating derogatory feelings?

— Raghib Clitso

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

— Larry Niven

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anonymous

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

— John Ridley

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

— Andrea Gibson

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

— Brooke Fraser

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being…

— Agnes Repplier

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could…

— Roseanne Barr

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help…

— Guy Kawasaki

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

— Jonathan Lethem

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not…

— Chuck Klosterman

“We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them…

— Ken Gire

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It…

— Anton Chekhov

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories…

— Arthur Kleinman

I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not…

— James Blunt

“Writing isn’t my life…it’s a lovely part of my life... but it’s not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food…things…

— Keri Hulme

Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener…

— Alex Goot

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that…

— C.K. Webb

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,…

— Camille Paglia

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that…

— Stanley Crawford

“The better a writer, the better he erases his footprints- yet the better the writer, the more he wants us to intuit…

— André Aciman

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

— Anonymous

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

— William Bernbach

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

— Margaret Atwood

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

— Anonymous

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

— Edgar Meyer

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

— Anonymous

“Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.”

— Habeeb Akande

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

“There are different kinds of talent. Maybe your talent is in interpretation. Maybe you're a stylist.”

— Rainbow Rowell

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes

That urge you get to write no one gives a shit on someones status.

— Becca

“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it”

— William Meikle

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

— Tina Fey