Writing Quotes · Page 491

I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

— Bradford Cox

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I feel you should be able to write about whatever you want.

— Jeff Hanneman

“When I write it's almost like a movie unfolding inside my head”

— MBarreto Condado

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

— Harold Brodkey

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

— William Gibson

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

— George M. Cohan

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

— Max Cavalera

“To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round”

— Gore Vidal

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyll go through anything. You read and youre pierced.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice”

— Joan Didion

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm…

— Karrine Steffans

One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably…

— Micah Perks

I'm the author of my own life. unfortunately I'm writing in pen. mistakes I make can't be erased, the only option is…

— Nishan Panwar

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix…

— Jane Gardam

“I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of…

— Mika Waltari

“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite…

— Josh Widdicombe

There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the…

— Bonnie Raitt

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The site of his thinking and writing was a small office wedged in one corner of his shaggy house, on whose door…

— Jennifer Egan

“My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t…

— H.B. Bolton

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try…

— Laura Mvula

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Anonymous

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

— Gustav Klimt

“Buried in research, eyes blood shot, wrists cramping... today was a good writing day.”

— F. N. Scott

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

— Anthony Marais

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

— Lloyd Alexander

“Good science fiction has its roots in good science.”

— Dan Brown

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

— Epictetus

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

— Clive Cussler

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

— Mike Tyson

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

— Henry Cho

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

— Joan Didion

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

— Leo Ornstein