Writing Quotes · Page 530

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

— Lynn Abbey

Writer babe you could be the quote. If I'm the lyric baby you could be the note. Record that!

— Miguel Jontel

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

— Emma Watson

Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

— Frank McCourt

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

— David B. Coe

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

— Joanne Harris

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has…

— Jorge Luis Borges

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

— Rainbow Rowell

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be…

— Stephin Merritt

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves…

— Siegfried Lenz

I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is…

— Bill Watterson

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our…

— W. H. Auden

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and…

— Janet Evanovich

“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class…

— Martin Amis

“Once upon a time,” Nora said, as she fluttered a series of kisses over his shoulders that sent every nerve in his…

— Tiffany Reisz

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and…

— Allan Gurganus

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen…

— Robin Hobb

I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.…

— Harvey Pekar

I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people…

— Scott Cohen

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write…

— T.C. Boyle

The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And…

— Marjorie M. Liu

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

— Rebecca Miller

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

— Dustin Diamond

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

— Rudolf Virchow

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

— Peyton Manning

I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.

— Charles Bock

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

— T Bone Burnett

“My asshole smells like a paper mill. Three cheers for being a writer.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.”

— J.P. Donleavy

“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Directly or indirectly, everything we write is for someone.

— Anonymous

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

— Casper Van Dien

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

— Henning Mankell

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

— Anne Tyler

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

— Robert Christgau