Writing Quotes · Page 472

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

— Dick Van Dyke

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

— Robert Mugabe

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

— Gary Lutz

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

— Gunter Grass

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in…

— Noah Baumbach

“Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises…

— Émile Zola

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that…

— Thom Gunn

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money,…

— Helen Fielding

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their…

— Warryn Campbell

“I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.”

— Millicent Ashby

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went…

— Anonymous

anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the…

— Ernst Mayr

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is…

— Aidan Chambers

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to…

— Heidi Julavits

As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer…

— Lee Isaac Chung

“This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will…

— Jarod Kintz

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got,…

— Katy Perry

I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my…

— Michael Chabon

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

— Irwin Shaw

“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned”

— D.W.Metz

“The center of a poem must be a nucleus its words orbit around following the poet's laws of writing.”

— the mag man

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

— Joseph Stilwell

I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

— Chord Overstreet

“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

— Ali Fazal

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

— Vince Flynn

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

— Ben Harper

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

I've been open and honest in my writing - I talk about everything.

— Alison Hammond