Writing Quotes · Page 33

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

— Zane Grey

Writing forces consciousness.

— Melody Beattie

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

— Ronald D. Moore

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

— Michael Cretu

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

— Umberto Eco

“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.”

— robert m drake

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

— Irwin Shaw

Its hard to hide your stories when its written on your body..

— Patience

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

— Sloan Wilson

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

— Jessamyn West

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

— Sophy Burnham

“come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative…

— David S. Goyer

“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.”

— Lisa Henry

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a…

— Gord Downie

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with…

— Rhianna Pratchett

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character…

— Tom Barbash

Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in…

— David Sedaris

“I left my prestigious “mainstream” job and became what I had always wanted to be—a writer, a nightguard, a gas-stoker, a public…

— Mikhail Iossel

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for…

— Steve Almond

I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which…

— Robert Kiyosaki

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg,…

— Lisel Mueller

We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers…

— Naomi Watts

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I…

— Edmund White

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

— Erma Bombeck

Politicians are better liars than writers.

— Shan Sa

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The good writers touch life often.”

— Ray Bradbury

Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

— Torrey Peters

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”

— A.D. Posey

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby