Writing Quotes · Page 361

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

— Micah Perks

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”

— John Geddes

“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.”

— Mary Karr

I am more comfortable in the actor's and writer's role than a director's.

— Sreenivasan

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

— Stephen Elliott

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin

Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.

— Bram Cohen

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of…

— Susan Sontag

“I've been getting tired of writing stories in the stars. Maybe we can write something in the good old Arkansas dirt. ~Holly”

— Christina Coryell

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,…

— Jane Austen

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help…

— Ernest Hemingway

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll…

— Kevin Keck

“It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself…

— Kate Mulgrew

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at…

— Erik Larson

As writer pay declined and teacher pay also, we all started hanging out online. You could say online social networks cheapen our…

— Alexander Chee

When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't…

— Shuggie Otis

I'm very involved on a lot of levels in making of this album," "I wrote on 11 of the 12 tracks which…

— Rebecca St. James

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.…

— Lee Gutkind

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do…

— Lorrie Moore

A lot of what I've written that's made its way onto my records I've written in Kansas, which is interesting because I've…

— Kevin Morby

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to…

— Jessie J

One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good…

— Paul Dini

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

— PJ Harvey

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

— David Brooks

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

— George Bernard Shaw

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

— William Butler Yeats

I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

— Clive Cussler

He never learned to read and a write so well but he could play his guitar like ringing a bell yell.

— Peter Tosh

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

— Mitch Lucker

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

— Jami Attenberg

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

— Billie Eilish

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

— Joe Strummer

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

— John O'Hara