Writing Quotes · Page 34

I essentially write for myself.

— Leon Uris

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

— Sarah Manguso

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

— Baron Davis

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

— Walt Whitman

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

— Bryan Burrough

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

— Red Smith

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

— Lev Grossman

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

— Jacob M. Appel

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

— Peter Hedges

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

— Antonio Machado

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

— Athol Fugard

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal…

— David Hare

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

— Alison Assiter

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music…

— Steve Brown

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't…

— Joseph O'Neill

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,…

— George Carlin

“Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience…

— David Nicholls

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in…

— J. G. Ballard

I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so…

— Bill Murray

The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were…

— Julie Plec

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But…

— Natalie Goldberg

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

— Dorothy West

“My style of writing is very different from yours.”

— Jane Austen

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,

— Octavia Butler

I like to direct what I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese