Writing Quotes · Page 39

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's a sucker born every minute.

— P. T. Barnum

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

To write I have to wake up at 5 A.M.

— Rachel Sennott

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

— Jonathan Ames

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

— Donald Miller

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

— E. B. White

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

— Lisa Scottoline

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

— Leonard Cohen

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

— Ayn Rand

“An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid ! Ye cannae tell me that's right!”

— Terry Pratchett

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

— Anthony Doerr

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I…

— John Darnielle

Our newer wonderful writers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are clearly so well-informed about the history of…

— Stephen Schwartz

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to…

— Anita Roddick

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

— Min Jin Lee

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

I think that's when I get excited in the writers' room - when people are yelling back and forth at each other.

— Misha Green

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a…

— Hannes Holm

The whole idea is that the combination of tight activity and slack activity allows me to be both productive and creative at…

— Karan Bajaj

At the age of 10 I started writing to the BBC about getting into broadcasting. It went on for years. I was…

— Phillip Schofield

“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the…

— Sarah Waters

“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By…

— Tim O'Brien

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all…

— Kurt Vonnegut

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying…

— Maxine Kumin

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to…

— George Orwell

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older,…

— Corey Taylor

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

I find writing to be a great stress-buster.

— Ravi Subramanian

All writing comes by the grace of God.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

— Richard Attenborough

“I write what I like to read.”

— Johnny Worthen

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield