Writing Quotes · Page 549

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

— Danny Fox

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

— Elizabeth Aston

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

“If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.”

— Larry Brown

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

— Lauren Groff

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

— Ben Stiller

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I've written you a hundred messages that I'll never send”

— pleasefindthis

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the…

— Denzel Washington

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is…

— Chris Jericho

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff…

— Alison Sudol

“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world…

— John Freeman

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at…

— Neil Gaiman

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part…

— Catherine McCormack

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you…

— Sam Shepard

My mom is a great artist and she inspired me when I was young to sketch and draw, but I never took…

— Janelle Monae

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward…

— Luke Bryan

You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of…

— Wilferd Peterson

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent…

— Octavia Butler

My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in…

— Justin Cartwright

I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame…

— Richard Bach

“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

— 1st Baron Evershed Raymond Evershed

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

— Norman Mailer

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

— Iron & Wine

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.

— Christopher Priest

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

— Colm Meaney

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

— Damian Marley

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

— Angel Olsen

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

— Andre Dubus

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

— Gustave Flaubert

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

— Ariel Dorfman

“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop