Writing Quotes · Page 379

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of…

— Neil Simon

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

— Stephen King

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who…

— Ray Bradbury

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought…

— Emma Roberts

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them…

— Jenny Holzer

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to…

— John Irving

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its…

— Morgan Parker

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point…

— Annie Dillard

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are…

— Mark Haddon

“Almost finished my second guide book into all Truth, revealing my DNA and the amazing writings and revelations of Enoch, the earthly…

— Aunidan Christi

Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky.…

— Chris Pratt

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed…

— Anonymous

Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I…

— Amos Oz

Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top…

— Don Henley

“I read once that all great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm no exception. You can't let your origins bring…

— Chris Colfer

“Why didn’t I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams…

— Iain Borden

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

— Stephen King

When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.

— Annie Dillard

“Entangled cobwebs of my mind keep me awake at night! Need to get back to sm serious writing again!”

— Deeba Salim Irfan

“I could write from anywhere, including the moon, provided I had a pencil and not a pen.”

— Jarod Kintz

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

“Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver.”

— Evels

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

— Gemma Files

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

— Truman Capote

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

— Eva Ibbotson