Writing Quotes · Page 444

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

— William Monahan

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

— Sean O'Casey

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

— May Sarton

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

— Tom Lehrer

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

— Sharon Olds

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

— Chinua Achebe

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

— Julie Delpy

I am fond of my writing in the film 'Mondi Mogudu Penki Pellam,' one of the first films to feature a mainstream…

— Tanikella Bharani

Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody…

— Rakim

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it.

— Joe Lycett

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women…

— Caroline Lucas

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television,…

— Derek Luke

“I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a…

— Sophie Weston

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people…

— Aaron Sorkin

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor…

— Brian McDonald

“I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when…

— Onyx

“I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women's eyes: there's so little choice, and whatever colouring is decided upon…

— Julian Barnes

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's…

— Hari Kunzru

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the…

— John Franklin Bardin

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old…

— Neil Diamond

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

— William Shakespeare

“Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.”

— Pushpa Rana

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

— Jack Thorne

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

— Michael Crichton

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

— Sal Vulcano

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Learn to live. Live to write. Write to love. Love to learn.”

— Bonafide Rojas

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

— Mary Norris

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

— Andre Previn

“Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense”

— Jennifer Larmar

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

— Ewan McGregor

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

— Bruce Boxleitner