Writing Quotes · Page 371

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

— Robert McKee

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

— Anonymous

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,

— Mikey Welsh

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

— Firoozeh Dumas

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to…

— Rivers Cuomo

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never…

— Amy Winehouse

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but…

— Doris Lessing

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write…

— Joel Stein

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

— Seamus Heaney

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so…

— Joseph O'Neill

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that…

— Alice Walker

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,…

— Michael Gira

Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having…

— Nancy Meyers

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest…

— Jazz Feylynn

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything…

— William Faulkner

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is…

— Douglas Bond

Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that…

— Haroon Moghul

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as…

— Gao Xingjian

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice…

— Christian Karlson Stead

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things…

— Walt Whitman

“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”

— Hélène Cixous

“You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.”

— William Packard

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

— Bell Hooks

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.”

— M. Fauzil Adhim

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers

“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.”

— Mara Altman

“Apparently the law of Inertia affects writing too.”

— A.A. Cheshire

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

— Emer Kenny

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro