Writing Quotes · Page 411

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

— Susan Sontag

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

— Amelie Nothomb

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

— John Tavener

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

— Ernest Gaines

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

— Mike O'Brien

It's kind of always been a secret fantasy of mine, the idea of writing a song and then not having to be…

— Kevin Parker

“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell…

— Debbie Macomber

“Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you’ve fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it…

— Shaun Hick

I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I…

— John Cooper Clarke

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you…

— Annie Dillard

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first…

— Jonah Hill

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as…

— Patricia Wentworth

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

— Susan Sontag

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a…

— David Perry

I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area.…

— Rhianna Pratchett

All my writing, I always do it in the studio, 'cause everything sounds good. The piano's there, the keyboards; if you want…

— Zakk Wylde

I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I…

— Ester Dean

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,…

— T. S. Eliot

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the…

— Billy Collins

I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's…

— Paul Westerberg

“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right…

— Sanober Khan

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

— Garth Stein

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

— Amor Towles

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

— Matt Groening

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

— Gail Porter

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

— Elizabeth Berg

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

— Thomston

“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

— James Joyce

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

— Max Schneider

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

— John Edgar Wideman

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

— Max Winkler