Writing Quotes · Page 442

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

— Judy Blume

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

— Drew Endy

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

— John Updike

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

— Sean Lock

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

— Allen W. Wood

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

— Lisa Unger

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

My second TV assignment ever was to go to Cambodia to look at the state of the country in the dying days…

— Emily Maitlis

As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think…

— John Green

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its…

— Ellen Ullman

The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool…

— Soccer Mommy

I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to…

— Grant Morrison

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

— Jessa Crispin

“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where…

— Emily Gould

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear…

— Lauren Oliver

“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of…

— Truman Capote

I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try…

— Richard Grossman

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.…

— Geraldine Brooks

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I…

— Akhil Sharma

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .…

— Anton Chekhov

When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You…

— George C. Wolfe

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

— Anonymous

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”

— Jason E. Hodges

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

— Joaquin Miller

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.”

— Sinovuyo Nkonki

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

— Michael Winter

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

— Alice Mattison

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

— Nora Barnacle

When I'm writing, I am just doing what feels right for me.

— Jed Mercurio

“A straight road is an indicator that the journey is over.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

— Vantile Whitfield

In the digital space, writers and directors get time to build and establish a character.

— Rasika Dugal

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones. ”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.”

— Lori Lesko