Writing Quotes · Page 519

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

— Beverly Cleary

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

— Grace Paley

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

— Nicola Roberts

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

— John Yau

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

— Darren Criss

“Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.”

— Ana Patrick

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

— David Guterson

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read…

— John Irving

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

— Ariel Winter

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books…

— Sophie Kinsella

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really…

— Domino Kirke

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like…

— Stephen King

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the…

— Francois Cluzet

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal…

— Augusto Roa Bastos

It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you…

— Alexi Murdoch

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I…

— Alastair Campbell

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's…

— Maya Angelou

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns…

— Grace Paley

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about…

— Carol Higgins Clark

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

— James Salter

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

— Steven Pressfield

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

You are the author of your life, unfortunately you are writing in pen and cannot erase your mistakes

— Jerald Delacruz

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

— Dominic Holland

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

When I'm writing, my mood is very good - and I love life.

— Hisham Matar

I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

— Anonymous