Writing Quotes · Page 476

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

— William Stafford

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

— Marguerite Young

“Everybody dies. Some die still waiting for inspiration.”

— Christina Escamilla

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

— Steven Pressfield

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been…

— Paul Auster

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from…

— Andrew Tobias

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and…

— Mark Russell

As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,…

— Charlotte Bronte

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

— John Grisham

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that…

— Marc Maron

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life,…

— Anne Lamott

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you…

— William Campbell Gault

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori…

— Tim McGraw

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

To anybody who considers themself a struggling actor, which is every single guy out here writing their own screenplay, don't give up.…

— Paul Raci

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes…

— Nia Vardalos

As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan…

— Macklemore

I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as…

— Henry Parry Liddon

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

— Arijit Singh

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

— John Rzeznik

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

— Abigail Breslin

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

— Sandra Brown

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

— Sonali Bendre

“I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.”

— R. YS Perez

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

— Dave Ramsey

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

— Christine McVie

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

— Margaret Laurence

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

— Anonymous

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,

— T. E. Lawrence

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

— Emily Dickinson