Writing Quotes · Page 47

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

As technologists, we all write code.

— Naveen Tewari

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

— Natalya Neidhart

“All worries are less with wine.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”

— Oscar Wilde

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

— Dom DeLuise

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

— Yves Klein

Writing is always harder than talking.

— Gloria Steinem

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”

— Tyhitia Green

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

— Mary Karr

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity…

— John Mason Brown

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

— Barbara Sukowa

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and…

— Mark Skousen

When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble…

— Tim Key

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,…

— Dani Shapiro

“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”

— Adam Langer

I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about…

— Ben Drew

I think that kind of balance comes with the process of growing together as a band, the Little Dragon. We love to…

— Yukimi Nagano

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where…

— Vera Nazarian

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes…

— Loudon Wainwright III

“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging…

— John Steinbeck

“I'll write you an epilogue, I will, I will. Better than any shit that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese.…

— John Green

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy…

— Paul Kane

My first job in Hollywood was as a PA in the writers room of 'Dawson's Creek,' and from that early experience on,…

— Ruben Fleischer

“Writing is like solving a creative equation.”

— See Moua

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

— David Shapiro

I'm quite good at not writing.

— Ian Mcewan

To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

— Philip Larkin

And I could write it better than you ever felt it.

— Pete Wentz

“The way I dance is by writing.”

— Anne Lamott

Writing is something I take very seriously.

— Melody Gardot

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

— Louis L'Amour