Writing Quotes · Page 421

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

— Bill Cosby

“The unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable." --Mandy Kellogg Rye, Writer”

— Simone Biles

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

— Heather Sellers

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

— Casey Wilson

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

— Eric S. Raymond

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

— Susan Mitchell

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which…

— Susanna Fogel

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different…

— David Longstreth

“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of…

— Jim Denney

I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist?…

— David Toop

There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me,…

— Samin Nosrat

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into…

— Philip Greenspun

“Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as…

— Mark Rubinstein

Words only write your words if you dont your heart will fall in drop it, dont let it drop leave it all…

— Natalya Johnson

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its…

— Juliana Hatfield

I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.…

— Chuck Wendig

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least…

— John D'Agata

My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had…

— Kevin Sessums

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so…

— William S. Burroughs

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to…

— Walter Martin

I am the author of my own life, unfortunately I am writing in oen and cant erase my mistakes.

— Richie

The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep.

— Mariana Fulger

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

— Darcey Steinke

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

— Maria Semple

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

— Marc Maron

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

— Anna Kamienska

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

— Ariel Dorfman

“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

— Gustave Flaubert

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

— Seth Numrich

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

— Maynard James Keenan

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

— Norman Mailer