Writing Quotes · Page 374

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

— LP

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

“The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

— Douglas Adams

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

— Neil Gaiman

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said…

— Christopher McQuarrie

“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall”

— Stieg Larsson

Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the…

— John Kapelos

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that…

— Quincy Jones

I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the…

— Sam Levinson

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents…

— Mark O'Donnell

There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.

— Amanda Foreman

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold…

— Rostam Batmanglij

What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad…

— Astro

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— Ann Patchett

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret…

— C. S. Lewis

On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that…

— David Bowie

If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category,…

— Ben Fountain

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I…

— Anne Lamott

“You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good…

— Charlotte Bingham

“I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.”

— Katharine Hepburn

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

— Anonymous

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

— Mark Twain

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

— Miguel Syjuco

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

— Francis Schaeffer

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore