Writing Quotes · Page 513

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

— Charity Parkerson

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

— Fiona Shaw

You can't believe everything that's written or reported in the media.

— Nick Lachey

“Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back”

— Kya Aliana

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

— Danielle Steel

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about…

— Edward Hirsch

“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no…

— Dani Shapiro

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill",…

— Walter Hill

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches…

— Pranav Mistry

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty…

— Greg Lake

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness…

— Chinua Achebe

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no…

— Robert McNamara

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

— Meg Wolitzer

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions…

— Sheila Heti

I could make a long list of writers and directors and actors I would love to work with, but the exciting thing…

— Finn Cole

What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because…

— Daniel Handler

The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to…

— Alex Kendrick

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it…

— Mark Twain

“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

— Aimee Bender

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

— Ezra Pound

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

— Anais Nin

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Let all our words(written or spoken) be for the glory of God and the good of his children.”

— Irene McCullum-Hines

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

— Daniel Keys Moran

“If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!”

— Jen Selinsky

“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”

— Miles Tager

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

— Seth Godin

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

“She begins to write to Pierre, a sort of laboratory notebook of grief.”

— Lydia Davis

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

— Ethel Wilson

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

— Daniel Keys Moran

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd