Writing Quotes · Page 351

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

— Charles Oakley

I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.

— Steven Knight

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

— Katy Perry

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

— Wanda Sykes

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

— William Gurstelle

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

— Judy Blume

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

— Ben Harper

[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done -…

— Annette Messager

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would…

— Hilary Mantel

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close…

— Shannon L. Alder

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will…

— Henry James

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his…

— George Saunders

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the…

— Antonio Tabucchi

Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul…

— Thomas Moore

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life…

— Henry Miller

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere…

— Patrick Modiano

It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me,…

— Rodney Clawson

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at…

— Elton John

People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on…

— Page Hamilton

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my…

— Charles Bukowski

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

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

— Alexandra Johnson

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

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

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

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

— Julia Leigh

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Peter Reading

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

— George Harrison

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

— Jack Smith