Writing Quotes · Page 383

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

— Bill Pullman

“He is a sea, a cliffside rooting. Writing a wound creating a cliffside in your heart. a love.”

— Gwen Calvo

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

— Richard Bach

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

— Sharon Olds

I think - I hope - I became a better writer as I've worked.

— Leigh Bardugo

“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.”

— Mary Papas

I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.

— Tim Commerford

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel…

— Matt de la Pena

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes…

— George Sand

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even…

— Frank Ocean

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the…

— Charles Dickens

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.

— Nicky Wire

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have…

— Elena Ferrante

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had…

— Ruth Ozeki

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

— Stevie Wonder

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up…

— Dwayne McDuffie

When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it…

— Brian Posehn

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,…

— Stephen King

“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit…

— Antonia Michaelis

Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.…

— Porochista Khakpour

“My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth…

— Katie Fforde

What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material…

— Meghan Daum

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

“I could write a million poems Wish you 'd under- stand”

— Adnan Shafi

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

— Simone Elkeles

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

— Parker Posey

“Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.”

— Innocent Eneojo Felix

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

— Bob Dylan

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

— Michael Ian Black

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

— Julianna Baggott

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

— Robert Asprin

I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.

— Maria Bamford

“The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.”

— Mercedes Lackey