Writing Quotes · Page 356

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

— Maya Angelou

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

— Denise Duhamel

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.

— George C. Wolfe

Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.

— Greta Gerwig

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

— Mem Fox

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and…

— Jean Plaidy

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song.…

— Ben E. King

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer.…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been…

— Mike O'Malley

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll…

— Matt Sharp

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die,…

— Ray Bradbury

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to…

— Toby Lightman

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for…

— George Orwell

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write…

— Maren Morris

Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One…

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When…

— Natalie Goldberg

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

— J. M. Coetzee

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

— Robert Frost

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

— Lena Dunham

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

— Bob Seger

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

— Criss Jami

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

— Amartya Sen

“That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.”

— Mary Papas

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

— Sylvia Day

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

— Michael Korda

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

— Woody Allen