Writing Quotes · Page 426

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

“Write everyday. read everyday. You don't have to be perfect, you have to committed.”

— John Hamrick

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

— Asher Roth

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt

“Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.”

— Kartik Mehta

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

— Henry Miller

I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open…

— Gregg Allman

It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on…

— LP

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the…

— Ruston Kelly

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to…

— Paul Simon

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

— Paul Lauterbur

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I…

— Frankie Cosmos

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any…

— Junot Diaz

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when…

— Kate Thompson

I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to…

— Bell Hooks

The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he…

— Mary Oliver

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before…

— Bill Gates

I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the…

— Debra Dean

almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by…

— Rona Jaffe

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of…

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is…

— Rachel Bloom

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

— N. K. Jemisin

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

— Francine Prose

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

— Brad Thor

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

— Peter Davison

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.”

— Amy Rogers

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

— Shawn Mendes

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

— Jonathan Tropper

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

— Morgan Freeman

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.”

— Laurence Gane

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

— Larry Wall

“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana