Writing Quotes · Page 492

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

— Rita Rudner

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

— Andrew Vachss

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

— Orson Scott Card

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

— Sister Souljah

“Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.”

— Kristopher Jansma

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

— Amy Winehouse

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

— Deanna Petherbridge

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

— Bryan Ferry

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and…

— Christopher Moore

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.…

— Paul Di Filippo

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if…

— Lena Dunham

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and…

— William Kunstler

I always say I'm more of a food writer than a TV presenter, because that's what I'm trained in, that's what I…

— Rachel Khoo

“The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a…

— Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The thing about Springsteen, his music, although he's writing about, you know, New Jersey and Asbury Park, all of them places, it's…

— Sam Fender

“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have…

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And…

— Jason Pierce

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people…

— Louise Penny

“No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it…

— Erik Larson

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't…

— Téa Obreht

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that,…

— Phil Mickelson

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me…

— El DeBarge

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

— Lucy Dacus

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

— Kenneth Rexroth

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

— Nigel Barker

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

— Thomas L. Dumm

“You know you're a writer when the words don't stop!”

— Joyce Middleton

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

— Fisher Stevens

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

— Rachel Cusk

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

— Evan Dando

“Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.”

— Beth Revis

I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

— Arthur Bradford

“Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat!”

— Lilly Cain

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Dance on a white page to reveal your passionate perception of inner madness.”

— Debasish Mridha

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

— Charles Ghigna

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

— Jill McCorkle