Writing Quotes · Page 488

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

— Paulo Coelho

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

— Edwidge Danticat

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

— Philip Gulley

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

— Dan Poynter

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like:…

— Mike White

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on…

— Shannon Lee

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of…

— Samuel Johnson

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge…

— Petra Collins

“The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and…

— Anne Weale

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it…

— Geary Davis

I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in…

— Scott Rigell

“Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.”

— Anonymous

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me,…

— Walter Mosley

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers…

— Carson McCullers

We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in…

— Jeanette Winterson

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed…

— Jessica Abel

In the recovery movement, they call what I'm talking about letting go and letting God. If you're uncomfortable with the word God,…

— Wayne Dyer

I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for…

— Janet Fitch

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was…

— Ernest Hemingway

Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So…

— Elodie Yung

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

— Anonymous

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

— Dorianne Laux

“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”

— Johnny D. Boggs

“The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

— Pablo Picasso

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

— George Meyer

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

— Stephen Sondheim

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

— R. L. Stine

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

— James Gray

Doing a book signing tomorrow at Barnes & Noble. Bring your own book...I haven't written one yet.

— Daniel Tosh

Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

— Joseph Bruchac

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

— Black Elk

“When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?' ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

— Sam Shepard