Writing Quotes · Page 517

“Your worry days are over. You're a writer. Worry on paper.”

— Ksenia Anske

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

— John Cleese

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

— Dustin Hoffman

“I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?”

— Shannon Lynette

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”

— R.D. Larson

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything…

— Clint Eastwood

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in…

— Keith Donohue

I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not.

— Cody Simpson

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next.…

— Harvey Pekar

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories…

— J. Cole

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism…

— Edward Hirsch

“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence… I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published…

— John Fowles

“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of…

— Walter J. Ong

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.…

— Teddy Pendergrass

Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get…

— Charlie Huston

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one…

— Jason Robert Brown

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know…

— Anne Lamott

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in…

— Frankie Boyle

If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen…

— F. Paul Wilson

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

— Laura Miller

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

— Morley Callaghan

“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

— Tim Cahill

“The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page”

— Gregory Orr

I wish my book of life had been written in pencil...there are a few pages I'd like to erase

— Julie Hernandez

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

— Jack Whitehall

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”

— Mo

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

— Farrah Abraham

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

— Erica Jong

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”

— Peter Ackroyd