Writing Quotes · Page 412

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

— John 5

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto Cuz where else in death do I get to go?”

— Carlos Salinas

“Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz”

— Kevin Ansbro

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”

— Paul Auster

“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.”

— Jonathan Heatt

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there…

— Tucker Max

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're…

— Nestor Carbonell

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer…

— Dave Gorman

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying…

— Lana Condor

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've…

— Douglas Coupland

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

— Becky Albertalli

“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page,…

— Dexter Palmer

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not…

— Steve Erickson

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on…

— Tavi Gevinson

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -…

— Rajneesh

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to…

— Leo C Rosten

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be…

— Eudora Welty

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way…

— Eric Bana

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed…

— Tony D'Souza

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got…

— Colin Powell

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

— George R. R. Martin

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”

— The Script

“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”

— Amaya Ellman

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

— Charles Stross

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan

“You are not a story, your life is a story and you are the writer, write an inspiring one.”

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

— N. Scott Momaday

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

— Patti Smith

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.”

— Heidi Pitlor

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

— Richard Bach

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

— John Mortimer

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

— Rumi