Writing Quotes · Page 381

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

— Anonymous

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

— Anonymous

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

— Douglas Engelbart

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

— Mary Kay Andrews

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

— Amit Kalantri

You give me that kind of feeling people write movies about.

— Anonymous

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

— Laurie Anderson

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I…

— Robert Greene

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody…

— Tama Janowitz

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

— Edna Ferber

I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are…

— Darrelle Revis

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these…

— James Blunt

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

— Raymond Chandler

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons…

— Danah Zohar

Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it…

— Nicholson Baker

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When…

— Jackie Mason

“It’s absolutely essential that a writer know himself, for until he knows his abilities and limitations, his talents and problems, he will…

— Charles Shields

I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the…

— Ron Padgett

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain…

— Charles M. Blow

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“beware of the misuse of Ellen White’s writings. Her counsels, which I believe were God-inspired, were addressed to specific situations in the…

— William G. Johnsson

“we rescue our tears from the sea secure them by writ”

— M. Nourbese Philip

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

— Dorothea Brande

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

— Alice B. Toklas

“It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.”

— Chaim Potok

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

— James D. Macdonald

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

— Joshua Bloch

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

— Anonymous

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

— Erica Jong

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

— Taylor Momsen

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

— Anonymous

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”

— Anonymous

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

— Ann Packer

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

— Michael Pitt

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

— David Hackworth