Writing Quotes · Page 52

,,Writing is rowing with one hand ,,,

— Lotus

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

“We writers always get our revenge on paper”

— Scott Westerfeld

The first condition of immortality is death.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Writing has never been that simple for me.

— Pat Conroy

“Write it down and it will come alive.”

— Efrat Israeli

“Want to read me, let me write.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

— Hilton Als

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.”

— YKRaikou

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

— John Darnielle

“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.”

— Lawrence Block

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

— Joseph Conrad

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

— Pixie Lott

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

— Phyllis Diller

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

— Marvin Hamlisch

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

— John Green

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually…

— Robert Ben Garant

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are…

— Richard Denney

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing.…

— Tanith Lee

“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it…

— André Aciman

“From the earliest writings of the apostles, through the second and third centuries, the Church resisted military involvement and refused engagement at…

— Keith Giles

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a…

— Alain de Botton

I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly…

— Tim Minchin

“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen

Keeping your sanity is sometimes stalling the business aspect of things and being OK with saying no to certain things. Sometimes I…

— Yukimi Nagano

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit…

— Garry Marshall

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a…

— Anne Enright

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try…

— Chris Isaak

“I write to exist in a nonexistent space.”

— Molly

“If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.”

— Patrick H.T. Doyle

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

— Elizabeth Moon

For the love of God, keep writing these arclties.

— Suzyn

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

— Martin Freeman

“You are the best book you could ever write phi”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

— Lydia Davis