Writing Quotes · Page 373

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

— Henry James

“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them”

— Gaurav Sharma

“When life tries to stop you from writing, be relentless!”

— Honoree Corder

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

— King Tuff

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

— Edwidge Danticat

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

— Walter Bagehot

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love…

— Elie Wiesel

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

— Nancy Lublin

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter,…

— Lari White

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want…

— Daphne Oz

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours.…

— Amy Tan

As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the…

— Goldlink

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

“I write for the child in everybody,that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of…

— Madeleine L’Engle

To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to…

— Anatole Broyard

I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job,…

— Jason Isbell

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person…

— Bea Miller

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to…

— David McCullough

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is…

— Raymond E. Feist

“As the economic writer Ben Casselman pointed out in 2016, most college applicants “never have to write a college entrance essay, pad…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

— Alice Walker

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

— A. P. Herbert

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

— Darcy O'Brien

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

— Andre Aciman

“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.”

— Virginia Woolf

“A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

— Joe Haldeman

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“to play a solitary game of chequers, to read, to write – what should I do?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Because when I write I like to think who would be the actor who would play it.

— Karan Soni

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman