Writing Quotes · Page 395

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

— Abigail Breslin

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

— John Rzeznik

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

— Sandra Brown

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

— Charles Bukowski

“I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.”

— R. YS Perez

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

— Sonali Bendre

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,

— T. E. Lawrence

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

— Anonymous

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

— Carl Sagan

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

— Terry Pratchett

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things…

— Benjamin Franklin

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is…

— Leonard Bernstein

I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy…

— Jim Gaffigan

“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far…

— Flannery O'Connor

If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.

— Stephen J. Dubner

“...definitely dramadies [are out], too. To me, if the writer can’t make up his mind if he’s doing drama or comedy, then…

— Jutta Profijt

“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to…

— Anton Chekhov

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be…

— Dani Shapiro

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -…

— Margaret Atwood

I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.…

— Edward Hirsch

I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the…

— Shonda Rhimes

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's…

— John Hodgman

I suppose we think euphemistically that all writers write because they have something to say that is truthful and honest and pointed…

— Rod Serling

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned…

— Ruskin Bond

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

— Christine McVie

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

— Margaret Laurence

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

— Dave Ramsey

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

— George Plimpton

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

— Billy Collins

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

— Emily Dickinson

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

— James Acaster

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

— Marilyn Monroe

Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me.

— Alex G

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

— Leslie Caron

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

— Salman Rushdie

“We are the indelible words we write and our stories are open wide spreading like the song we are”

— Naledi Molebatsi

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

— David B. Coe