Writing Quotes · Page 516

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

— Ba Jin

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

— Laura van den Berg

I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.

— Tara Westover

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

— Edward Abbey

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

— Alejandro Zambra

Wanting to know all kinds of things is perfect for novelists, because novelists are generalists. We're not specialists in anything, except, hopefully,…

— Lynne Tillman

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily -…

— Hilary Liftin

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has…

— Akiva Goldsman

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap…

— Raftaar

So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School…

— John David Washington

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

— James Herriot

“Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm…

— Warren Ellis

I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,'…

— Amanda McBroom

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a…

— Daniela Pestova

I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an…

— Mariko Tamaki

The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character…

— Jonathan Raban

“The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production…

— Laura Abbot

I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

— Baltasar Gracian

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck.

— Rick Nielsen

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

— Stephan Jenkins

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

— Stephen King

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.”

— Jane Yolen

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

I just Express out my Feelings on a piece of paper... And people says, I am a Writer

— Shashank Rayal

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

— Mark Twain

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

— James M. Barrie

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

— Richard Flanagan

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

— Stephen McCauley