Writing Quotes · Page 398

“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

— Rick Moody

“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.”

— Christy Hall

“I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

— Natalie Goldberg

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

— Ernest Hemingway

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

“Being a successful student is about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It's about being a skilled negotiator, a keen observer, and…

— Stefanie Weisman

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I…

— Kanye West

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write…

— Anne Enright

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

— Chris Chibnall

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which…

— William Shenstone

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute…

— Ida Lupino

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was…

— John Sayles

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for…

— Nell Scovell

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little…

— Nick Tosches

And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story…

— Isak Dinesen

“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and…

— Dave Eggers

I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a…

— Jill Magid

I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.'…

— Lindsey Stirling

Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was…

— Dick Durbin

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the…

— Jacques Maritain

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

— Farley Mowat

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

— Jonah Hill

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

— Ted Sizer

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

— Dick Van Dyke

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“St. Bernard said, ‘Every word one writes smites the Devil.”

— Lillian Stewart Carl

“Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.”

— Anasia Nicole Hixon

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

— Gary Lutz

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

— Robert Mugabe

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

— Gunter Grass

“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned”

— D.W.Metz