Writing Quotes · Page 4

I am a compulsive writer.

— Ruskin Bond

Never lie in writing.

— Mason Cooley

I like to write poetry.

— Rebecca Ferguson

I write poems.

— Bill Ward

I like writing.

— Lara Dutta

I'm a very slow writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I read and write a lot.

— Kunal Kapoor

Writing is seduction.

— Stephen King

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

— Jessica St. Clair

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

— Daniel Keys Moran

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

— Mason Cooley

I've never had a written script.

— Don Rickles

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Even writers need relief from words.

— Sarah Vowell

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

— Charles Darwin

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King

I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

— Clive Cussler

He never learned to read and a write so well but he could play his guitar like ringing a bell yell.

— Peter Tosh

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

— William Butler Yeats

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

— John O'Hara

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

— Jami Attenberg

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original…

— Billy Joel

“I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.”

— Cassandra Duffy

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story…

— Joyce Maynard

The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up…

— Bruce Feiler

I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he…

— Brent Spiner

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

— William Gaddis

If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about…

— Josh Radnor

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so…

— Adele

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and…

— Tao Lin

My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and…

— James Ellroy

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,…

— Lupe Fiasco

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only…

— Samuel Johnson

“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some…

— Robin Behn

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science…

— William Gibson

The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the…

— Dylan Moran

I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output…

— J. Robbins