Writing Quotes · Page 514

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

— Sam Shepard

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

— Virginia Woolf

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart.

— Jeremy Limn

“(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.”

— Jincy Willett

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys…

— Antonia Fraser

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

— Frank Miller

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

— Iain Sinclair

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements…

— Will Self

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it…

— Theodora Goss

“She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her…

— Jamie Weise

“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat…

— Agnes Nixon

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I…

— Julia Fox

“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone…

— Ann Patchett

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little…

— Alice Mattison

He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by…

— Vilem Flusser

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,…

— Anonymous

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the…

— Romain Rolland

Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we…

— Jory John

You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life.…

— Kris Jenner

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any…

— Elizabeth Kostova

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm…

— Tom Odell

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

— Jonathan Stroud

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

— Liev Schreiber

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

— Cyril Connolly

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

— Taylor Sheridan

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

— Curt Smith

What is written is more influential than what is said.

— James Cook

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

— Brander Matthews

“I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don’t you?” - author Mark Merlis”

— Mark Merlis

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

— Elmore Leonard