Writing Quotes · Page 376

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

— Truman Capote

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

— Dan Harmon

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used…

— Michael Palin

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood,…

— Robert Black

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long…

— John Irving

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by…

— Susan Orlean

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when…

— Elaine Pagels

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here…

— Brett Young

“Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.”

— Aneta Cruz

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better.…

— Kristen Stewart

Ann Coulter is, at this point, a known quantity (especially after the raghead remarks last year), and she delivered what they knew…

— John Cole

“The biblical writers do not finally and fully resolve the tension between divine sovereignty and human freedom. They affirm the authenticity of…

— Thomas R. Schreiner

I had spent five years not earning a penny, getting rejected. Thank God I had a husband who was supportive and encouraging.…

— Karen Abbott

I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps…

— David Crystal

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was…

— Susan Orlean

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her…

— Kate Zambreno

I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an…

— Tom Burke

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in...,…

— Richard Dawkins

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”

— Tyhitia Green

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There are more films which are being written around women.

— Athiya Shetty

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

— Louise Mensch

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”

— Anonymous

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun