Writing Quotes · Page 358

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

— Andy Summers

“I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...”

— Elizabeth Peters

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

— Maggie Stiefvater

A lot of the time you have older writers who think that every teenager says 'dude' all the time.

— Emily Hampshire

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

— Joseph Brodsky

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your…

— Paullina Simons

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I…

— Kevin Costner

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If…

— James Patterson

I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much…

— Jonathan Ames

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

— Michael Salu

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

— Anonymous

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination.…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all,…

— Greil Marcus

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a…

— Noah Hawley

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge…

— Lee Grant

“A plane flies overhead and inside it is a writer who has spent most of his life as a law clerk, even…

— pleasefindthis

I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma…

— Schoolboy Q

The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process.…

— Brie Larson

“I write. I give intimate private names to an external and foreign world. In a sense, I make it mine. In a…

— David Grossman

“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.”

— Richard Ridley

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

— Djuna Barnes

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

— Paul McCartney

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

— John Ridley

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

— Andrea Gibson

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anonymous

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

— Anonymous

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

— William Bernbach

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

— Anonymous