Writing Quotes · Page 475

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

— Patti Smith

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

— Sarah Lancashire

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.

— Laurence Sterne

I don't think anybody likes to read people writing horrible stuff about you.

— Darren Bent

Very neat article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Bookmarking

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

— Tess Gerritsen

“Ikatlah ilmu dengan menuliskannya (Tie science by writing)”

— Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between…

— Pankaj Mishra

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel…

— Caroline Leavitt

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human…

— Theodora Goss

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to…

— Mark Cuban

I think if you are writing something that you are trying to design for someone else to like that is not necessarily…

— Bryan Fuller

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite…

— Shelby Foote

When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a…

— Jack Dorsey

You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek…

— Dino Cazares

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and…

— Olivia Wilde

It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to…

— Joe Biden

“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of…

— Thomas Newkirk

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then…

— Terry Pratchett

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than…

— Lilian Katz

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world…

— John Green

“I read an article in a women's magazine about "writing purple prose for love and money." They made it sound easy, so…

— Carrie Alexander

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

— Toni Morrison

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Writer’s block is akin to a “vacancy” sign; if you wait long enough they will eventually fill.”

— Nanette L. Avery

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

— Andreï Makine

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

— Jeannette Walls

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

— Brett Young

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.”

— robert m drake

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

— Anonymous

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

— Christopher Hitchens

“It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.”

— Elinor Fuchs