Writing Quotes · Page 38

Moving on is like writing a new song.

— Britt L

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

— Win Butler

“I cannot conceive not writing.”

— Terry Pratchett

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

— Jane Yolen

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

— Anonymous

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

— Anita Brookner

“Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.”

— Amit Kalantri

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

— Thomas Hobbes

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes

— Nas

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

— Honore de Balzac

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

— Pat Mora

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

— John Irving

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

— Bonnie Hammer

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest…

— Kelley Armstrong

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain…

— Jasper Fforde

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but…

— William Faulkner

When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with…

— Jessie Cave

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which,…

— Meg Rosoff

“My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's…

— Mark Twain

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite…

— Sia Furler

“She wrote sniffing back the tears that flowed over the version of things that her unconscious insisted on sicking up.”

— Helen Hodgman

Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a…

— Miranda July

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get…

— John Dickerson

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was…

— Caroline Lawrence

“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but…

— Marc Levy

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human…

— Jane Yolen

I like films to be complete in their written form.

— Patrice Leconte

You write like you're in love.

— Anonymous

“You give me the duty to write about love”

— Nicola An

“[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on.”

— John Merriman

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

— Lena Waithe

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.”

— Peter Tieryas