Writing Quotes · Page 54

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.

— Anthony Beal

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

I feel most relaxed when I am acting or writing.

— Mathew Horne

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

— Govinda

Code writers, they are my idols.

— will.i.am

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

— Harvey Pekar

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

— James A. Michener

Write it down in your own handwriting.

— Eugene Ormandy

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Walter Savage Landor

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

— Jon Turteltaub

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

— Tibor Fischer

“If you must break a rule, break it on purpose. That includes this rule.”

— Josh Steimle

If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally.

— Daniel Ek

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

— Nicholas Jarecki

I like people who can write and sing, and play an instrument.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets,…

— Marc Almond

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the…

— Pat Pattison

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,…

— Henry Rollins

What a Wonderful World' is a love song to nobody and everybody. I'm thinking about songs like that in my writing with…

— Gregory Porter

Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her…

— Sarah Weinman

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain…

— Douglas Coupland

The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.

— William Zinsser

“I personally find that having a couple of projects going at once can be an aid to focus, refreshing my brain as…

— Charles Finch

I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the…

— Amandla Stenberg

“I at this writing am an old man, only three years short of my three score and ten. And they tell me…

— Andy Thomson

“You can’t tell half a tale, Poison. You can’t write half a book. Whatever you choose to do next will completely change…

— Chris Wooding

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of…

— Mark Twain

Dear Suzie, I ain't have sex in a while. I'm in jail with my niggaz; beatin off to your pictures. You only…

— Tony Yayo

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit…

— Ryan Tedder

Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking…

— H. L. Mencken

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

— Judy Delton

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

A single word often betrays a great design.

— Jean Racine

“I write so my voice is remembered.”

— Eric Wynn

“An author is a writer who didn't give up.”

— Richard Bach

“Writing is fun. Promoting? Not so much...”

— Bea Cannon

A writer's work is to witness things.

— Edward Hoagland