Writing Quotes · Page 408

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

— Anita Diament

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

— Cam'ron

“ I do write. I hope I do, to do and to always do. ”

— Bela Anĝelo

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

— Washington Irving

“I’m gonna write the most erotic, graphic, freakiest friend fiction ever.”

— Tina Belcher

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

— Jack Kerouac

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

— John Mortimer

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open…

— Julian Assange

“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a…

— Anonymous

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something…

— Barun Sobti

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation,…

— Haruki Murakami

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore…

— Wally Lamb

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try…

— Dustin Hoffman

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.…

— William Faulkner

The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as…

— Ray Dalio

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I believe the greatest pleasure in writing is in the progressive artistry of it. Each project is an attempt to do better…

— Anonymous

“So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a…

— Guillermo del Toro

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to…

— Dorothea Brande

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

— Paulo Coelho

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

— Raymond Carver

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

— Anonymous

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.

— Margo Kingston

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

— Sidney Sheldon

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

— Peter Sotos

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

— Taylor Swift

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

Life is written in PEN, there's no erasing what you've already written, so keep writing.

— Anonymous

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

— Jackie Evancho