Writing Quotes · Page 455

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

— Ian Mckellen

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

— Johannes Brahms

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

— Tennessee Williams

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”

— Violette Leduc

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

— George Saunders

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

— Holly Golightly

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk…

— James N. Frey

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

— Cass McCombs

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't…

— Nora Roberts

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a…

— China Miéville

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they…

— Clement Greenberg

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t…

— Julia Cameron

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I…

— Gillian Flynn

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it…

— Anita Baker

I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him -…

— Alan Lightman

Writing is close to acting. In directing, you control. Acting, you can't control how good you are, and you can't control how…

— Elaine May

It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan…

— Jeff Bezos

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,…

— Nathalie Handal

He didnt answer, Heath came out of the tree line, along with three other guys. We cant stay here any longer, Dallas…

— Jade

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was…

— Flume

“...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and…

— Philip K Dick

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its…

— Mark Twain

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang leav

“Writing lets other people know just how much fun it is in your head...”

— William Petersen

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

— Elizabeth Janeway

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

— Nadine Gordimer

“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”

— James Ellison

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

— Charlaine Harris

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

— Lzzy Hale

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

— Anonymous

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

— Peter Sotos

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

— Sidney Sheldon