Writing Quotes · Page 394

“Ikatlah ilmu dengan menuliskannya (Tie science by writing)”

— Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

— Andreï Makine

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

— Jeannette Walls

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

— Anonymous

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to…

— Barry Hannah

My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's…

— Libba Bray

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for…

— Ne-Yo

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…

— Isabel Allende

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things…

— John Fuller

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how…

— Deb Caletti

“I smile as I leave them, wondering what building my dad would try to save with his writing.Probably a baseball stadium. Or…

— Stephanie Perkins

If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a…

— Anonymous

I was being asked to write with some of the most incredible artists in the world. Meanwhile, I'm not taken seriously enough…

— Raye

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your…

— Lorde

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm…

— Taylor Swift

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one…

— Thomas Mallon

“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight…

— C. JoyBell C

I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of…

— Henry Beston

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as…

— Raymond Chandler

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.”

— robert m drake

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

— Brett Young

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

— William Stafford

“It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.”

— Elinor Fuchs

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

— Marguerite Young

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

— Arijit Singh

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Everybody dies. Some die still waiting for inspiration.”

— Christina Escamilla

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke