Writing Quotes · Page 500

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

— Thomas Paine

“The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.”

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.

— David Labrava

“this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing”

— Michael Chabon

“I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

— Dominique McElligott

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

— Mike Rich

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

— Joaquin Phoenix

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have…

— Taylor Dayne

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being…

— Brynn Cartelli

“Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the…

— Linda Yezak

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier…

— Hozier

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice…

— Anne Sexton

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for…

— Jack Tatum

“How many mystery writers does it take to change a light bulb?" "Two. One to screw the bulb almost all the way…

— Jokes About Writers - Writers Jokes

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,…

— V. S. Pritchett

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to…

— Storm Jameson

I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write…

— Stevie Nicks

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was…

— Joel Edgerton

“To me, the urge to be published is equivalent to the first quarter of the hero's journey, where normal life seems not…

— Rob Parnell

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.…

— Stephen Dobyns

“I never went to college — I don’t believe in college for writers. The thing is very dangerous. I believe too many…

— Ray Bradbury

My ability maps my own writing. I haven't spent a whole lot of time biting licks from the really quick masters. That's…

— Tobias Forge

“Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.”

— Steve Krug

“Magic Success Formula for Writing: Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and write!”

— Pam Zollman

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

— Lou Barlow

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

— Andrew Vachss

I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

— Amber Mark

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

— Andy Rooney

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

— Amy Bloom

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

— Joni Mitchell

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

— Anne Enright

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson

Rose are red; violets are blue; when I think of you, my writing comes out corny.

— Anonymous

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

— C. S. Lewis

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim