Writing Quotes · Page 527

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.

— Ayobami Adebayo

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

— Randhir Kapoor

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

— Bell Hooks

“If only my sunscreen was as good as my writers block!”

— Martin Link

I wanted to write a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends.

— Sean Payton

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

— Travis Morrison

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable…

— Murong Xuecun

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Writing is the best. The writer has the real power. You can create something and the world will be forever indebted to…

— Amy Poehler

There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is…

— Don DeLillo

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most…

— Milos Forman

“The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used…

— Linda Stasi

For me, I just know I feel better when I stay consistent with my writing. Ten minutes a day, even. Sometimes it's…

— Gracie Abrams

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone…

— Lauren Mayberry

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a…

— David Labrava

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd…

— Gene Wilder

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

One of the things I love about doing television is that I don't feel like I'm just purely a writer. I like…

— Stephanie Savage

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me…

— Chinua Achebe

“...it is plain that the proportion of celibates was high in the Roman empire and that the fall in the fertility of…

— Eileen Power

A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real…

— Cassandra Clare

You can speak universally by writing your specifics. That's historically been the case with authors like Philip Roth writing about New Jersey…

— Torrey Peters

“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.”

— Alastair Fowler

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

— Matt Haig

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

— Anonymous

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

— Zadie Smith

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

— Mike O'Brien

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

— Andy Biersack

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello