Writing Quotes · Page 456

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.

— Margo Kingston

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

— Jackie Evancho

Life is written in PEN, there's no erasing what you've already written, so keep writing.

— Anonymous

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

— Taylor Swift

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going…

— Dan Harmon

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.

— Erik Larson

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it…

— Joe Satriani

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

— John Edgar Wideman

People that don't write, whatever it is, they just assume you sit down and it magically pours out like Amaedus, and it's…

— Bear McCreary

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing…

— Annie Proulx

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

— Sigmund Freud

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have…

— Robert McKee

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is…

— Henry Cloud

I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix,…

— Raymond Chandler

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

“In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again,…

— Amy Bloom

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

— Harlan Coben

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

— Eugene Ionesco

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

— Martin Fowler

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

— Antonia Fraser

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

— Jean Little

“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing”

— David Halberstam

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

— James A. Michener

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

— Leon Uris

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

— Emily Gould

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

— Rebecca Serle

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

— John Grisham

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

— Paul Watson

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

— Anonymous