Writing Quotes · Page 35

“no paper with which to write. Instead,”

— Adam Burch

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.

— Joy Held

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

— Chely Wright

We do write our own music.

— Grace Chatto

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A woman who writes feels too much.

— Anne Sexton

I'm always terrified when I'm writing.

— Mary Karr

Dolph writing movies. Dolph into fashion.

— Young Dolph

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

— Ryan Tedder

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

— Aesop Rock

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

— William Gaddis

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

— Simon Beaufoy

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lies: a small lie, a big lie and politics.

— Anonymous

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

— Tori Amos

The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and…

— Peter Morgan

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

— Charles Bukowski

“IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY…

— FILM CRIT HULK

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't…

— Ann Beattie

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of…

— Ernest Hemingway

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was…

— Natalie Babbitt

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become…

— Antony Sher

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume

“RACHEL MADDUX | ON STAYING HUNGRY Hunger is everything because it’s nothing - not yet - just raw promise, one lack that…

— Rachael Maddux

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who…

— Clarence Thomas

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into…

— Sam Shepard

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows…

— Haruki Murakami

“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created. Your final draft should move you and make you…

— Pol Bard

A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet…

— Sasa Stanisic

“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be…

— George Orwell

Only assholes write plays about Nazis.

— David Lindsay-Abaire

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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

Politicians are better liars than writers.

— Shan Sa