Writing Quotes · Page 518

“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us”

— Stephen Chbosky

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“To wake up every day with a whisper of a dream and then put pen to paper to make it a reality”

— Samuel Colbran

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”

— Robert Galbraith

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

— David Grossman

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to…

— Gore Vidal

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as…

— Stan Lee

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.”

— Susan Larson

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I…

— Rachel Kushner

My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost…

— John Cheever

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting…

— Lindsay Duncan

I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.…

— Burhan Sonmez

“Remember to write continuously the entire twenty minutes. And never forget that this writing is for you and you alone. At the…

— James W. Pennebaker

“All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the…

— Russell Banks

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,…

— Maynard James Keenan

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working…

— John Tesh

Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count…

— Sergio Garcia

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

— Sissy Spacek

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realized I was a mediocre movie star at best.

— Diane Keaton

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

— Patricia MacLachlan

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

— Ilana Glazer

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

— Robert Knepper

Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

— Jenny Han

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

— Markus Zusak

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

— Blaise Pascal

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

— John Hope

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

— Sia

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

— Ingeborg Bachmann

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

— Chris Martin

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

— Gail Carson Levine

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

— Leonard Cohen