Writing Quotes · Page 464

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

— Omar Sharif

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

“At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.”

— Scott Cherney

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

— Marv Wolfman

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

“The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a…

— Omar Khayyám

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

— Shaun Cassidy

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes…

— Simon Doonan

“Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are…

— Phillip Gary Smith

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought…

— Tyne Daly

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.…

— Ray Bradbury

TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS.. to refuse to let their life slip away, write to save another day, love is the…

— Anonymous

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture…

— Grant Morrison

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. And I knew I could, at worst, work as a…

— Hannibal Buress

The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much…

— Chad Harbach

I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into…

— Ryan North

“Say (O Muhammad SAW to Mankind) If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the sea would…

— Quran

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.…

— Antonya Nelson

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for…

— David Crosby

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British…

— David Knopfler

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

— Iris Murdoch

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

— Ian Mcewan

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

— Neil Rackham

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

— Mark Twain

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

I enjoy writing about what I and my fiance, Debina Bonnerjee, are up to in my blog.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

— Eddie the Eagle

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

— Robin Hobb

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

— Sara Shepard

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

— Jack Kerouac

“I’m gonna write the most erotic, graphic, freakiest friend fiction ever.”

— Tina Belcher

“ I do write. I hope I do, to do and to always do. ”

— Bela Anĝelo