Writing Quotes · Page 487

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

All our life our parents told us not to write on walls. Facebook teaches us differently.

— Anonymous

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

— Alan Menken

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

— Anton Chekhov

“American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.”

— Eugene Peterson

“...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves…

— Donald Miller

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start…

— Rosser Reeves

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Words are like leaves blowing in the wind, they're hard to hold on to; but once you have it never let go.”

— Kris Harte

If you're a boxer, to become a great boxer, you need to be training all the time, boxing all the time. And…

— B-Real

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the…

— James Joyce

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that…

— Shana Alexander

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Brecht’s ‘basic laxity’ was one reason why, apart from his satellites and those tied to him by party bonds, he was generally…

— Paul Johnson

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences…

— Kate Voegele

I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were…

— Matthew Quick

If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there…

— George Saunders

Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by…

— Lancelot Andrewes

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

— Cary Fukunaga

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

— Anne Lamott

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

— Paul J. Meyer

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

— Stanley Williams

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

— E. B. White

“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.”

— Don DeLillo

Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?

— J. D. Salinger

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

— Irwin Shaw

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

— Jonathan Coe

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

— C. K. Williams

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

— Hortense Calisher

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

— George W. Bush