Writing Quotes · Page 520

“I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.”

— Angeline Trevena

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

— Jenna Blum

“If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.”

— Betty Smith

“When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.”

— Meg Rosoff

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

— Thomas Mann

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

— Glenn Ligon

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

— Leo Ornstein

“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.”

— Ellie Presner

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl…

— Ian Somerhalder

My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I…

— Victoria Chang

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through…

— Mu Xin

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can…

— Salman Rushdie

I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.

— Pablo Schreiber

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any…

— John Lydon

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual…

— Jorge Luis Borges

So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My…

— Will Hobbs

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they…

— Kurt Cobain

The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger…

— Charles Todd

“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated…

— Sylvan Barnet

I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my…

— Beth Orton

When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You…

— George C. Wolfe

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .…

— Anton Chekhov

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I…

— Akhil Sharma

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

— Sophie Rundle

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

— Judith Rossner

Don't break a girls heart, because she'll probably write a bestselling album about you.

— Anonymous

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

— Vikas Swarup

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

— Joe Dunthorne

I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.

— Katie Kitamura

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

— Andy Daly

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

— Jakob Dylan

“There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.”

— Mark Piper

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

— Anonymous

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

— Claire Tomalin

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

— Cole Swindell