Writing Quotes · Page 451

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

— Vincent Starrett

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

— Sam Wyly

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

— Steven Pressfield

I've noticed that when I write I tend to have slightly poppier melodies.

— Jen Ledger

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

— Padgett Powell

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter

— Baltasar Gracian

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

— Lana Del Rey

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're…

— Robert McKee

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use…

— Ted Rall

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing…

— Grant Morrison

I would like to sit and and write some acoustic stuff. That's what I want to do. It means creatively, that's what…

— Avril Lavigne

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty,…

— Michael Lewis

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times…

— E. J. W. Barber

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for…

— Flannery O'Connor

I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant.…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can…

— Hill Harper

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts…

— Philip K. Dick

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and…

— William Shenstone

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

— Bart Millard

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

“A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

— Rumi

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

— Andrea Riseborough

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

— Anonymous

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.”

— Piper Payne

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

— Criss Jami

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford