Writing Quotes · Page 432

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

“She begins to write to Pierre, a sort of laboratory notebook of grief.”

— Lydia Davis

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

— Ethel Wilson

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

— Daniel Keys Moran

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

— Sam Shepard

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for…

— Whitney Cummings

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar…

— Zac Efron

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard…

— Stanley Unwin

“If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to…

— Anne Lamott

“Writing things down with a pen is a lot faster and more therapeutic than trying to type something on a tiny touchscreen…

— Jodie Beau

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've…

— Ernest Hemingway

I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad…

— George Saunders

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring…

— Max Lucado

“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a…

— Stanisław Lem

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and…

— Lorrie Moore

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every…

— Tony Buzan

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style…

— Teju Cole

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to…

— Erica Packer

Fans are people, and people sometimes get mad at air. I know I do. So I have people huff at me because…

— Seanan McGuire

Love as much as you can from wherever you are. This line is especially good to recall when you feel frightened, crazy,…

— Thaddeus Golas

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress…

— Susan Sontag

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

— Virginia Woolf

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

— Elfriede Jelinek

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

— Lauren Mayberry

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

— Patricia Highsmith

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

— Steve Buscemi

“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!”

— Christina Westover

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”

— Robert Galbraith

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

— Kerry King

“Writing isn't a hobby, it's a lifestyle and a movement.”

— Lilith. A

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

— Melanie Benjamin

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

— Brendan Kennelly

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb