Writing Quotes · Page 543

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

— James Broughton

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

— Rita Rudner

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

— Janet Evanovich

I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

— John Cho

“as far as I’m concerned, writer’s block is a myth.”

— Ann Patchett

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice…

— Jennifer Weiner

“In his writings, particularly Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature (2004), Kelley expressed admiration for Ayn Rand and…

— Laurence Galian

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear…

— Jo Nesbo

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot…

— Alan Jackson

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a…

— Jimi Hendrix

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers…

— Danielle Dutton

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just…

— Zak Orth

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I…

— Alan Lightman

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to…

— Eliza Doolittle

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why…

— Mike Birbiglia

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started…

— David Sedaris

“Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t…

— Nina Jean Slack

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7…

— Junot Diaz

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

— Keith Richards

I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.

— Christopher Priest

There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.

— Juan Gabriel

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

— Anonymous

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

— Rupert Murdoch

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

— O. J. Mayo

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

— Chevy Chase

First and foremost, that's what I am, I'm a writer. I can't draw worth a darn. I don't draw, I write.

— Greg Weisman

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

— William Hazlitt

“My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

— Pablo Casals

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

— William Goldman

“And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“My purpose in writing novels is to expose man's inhumanity to man.”

— Carly Compass

“You are the storyteller, and this life is your story.”

— Lisa Wimberger

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

— Nick Cave