Writing Quotes · Page 454

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

— Grant Achatz

I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.

— Rachel Sennott

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

— Peter Drucker

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

— Alexander Chee

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

— Robert Breault

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

— Donald Hall

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland.

— Marek Hlasko

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us…

— Barry Unsworth

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do…

— John Locke

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all…

— Eudora Welty

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of…

— Dorothea Brande

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make…

— Margaret Atwood

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

— Ronny Chieng

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near…

— Deborah Moggach

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both…

— Mike Bartlett

I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting…

— Maisie Peters

And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very…

— Edward Hirsch

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.…

— Peter O'Toole

You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read…

— Gary Giddins

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced,…

— Ol Parker

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've written 'Eclipsed' as a funny story. It is completely bonkers.

— Dominic Holland

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

— Corey Smith

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

— Saul Griffith

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

— Wallace Stegner

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

— Jennifer Lacy

London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

— Jen Lancaster

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

— Ted Hughes

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

— Julia Michaels

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

— Anonymous