Writing Quotes · Page 380

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

— Nic Pizzolatto

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

— Anonymous

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write”

— Matty Healy

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

— Carl Sandburg

“No one can tell your story so tell it yourself. No one can write your story so write it yourself.”

— Unsure

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

— Kara DioGuardi

I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably 'The 4-Hour Workweek,'…

— Tim Ferriss

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but…

— Pattiann Rogers

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing…

— Neil Diamond

“ Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe.”

— Martha Kolln

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

— Roland Barthes

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a…

— Camila Cabello

“Foreign Soil is dedicated to Australian fiction writers of colour: those who paved the path before me, and those for whom these…

— Maxine Beneba Clarke

I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm…

— Mark Strong

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company…

— Lee Tae-min

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent…

— Umberto Eco

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I…

— Harry Callahan

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a…

— Gloria Naylor

“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don’t have that poison,…

— Haruki Murakami

“That is the definition of truth, it is the thing you must not say. “The miracle into which the child and the…

— Hélène Cixous

I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very…

— Nick Lowe

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

— A. S. Byatt

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

— William H. Gass

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

— Suzanne Vega

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

— Don Felder

“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.”

— John Irving

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

— Lawrence Block

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

— Michelle Branch

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

— robert m drake

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

— Cate Marvin

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

— Anthony Doerr

If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

— Disha Patani

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

— Mika

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

— Robert Penn Warren

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

— Anonymous

Sometimes life writes stories that nobody could imagine...

— Anonymous