Writing Quotes · Page 550

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

— George D. Prentice

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

— Seth Numrich

I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.

— John Prine

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

— Darcey Steinke

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

— Anna Kamienska

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

— Maria Semple

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

— Marc Maron

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

— Dorothy Allison

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's…

— S. E. Hinton

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because…

— Zoe Foster Blake

“When you love someone, you are not just writing a chapter in her story; you are co-authoring an eternal epic!”

— Anonymous

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music…

— Nick Cave

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only…

— Max Brooks

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch…

— Garrison Keillor

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility…

— Anatole Broyard

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to…

— Jason Epstein

I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where…

— Tim Winton

This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail —…

— Carol S. Dweck

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made…

— Tom Wolfe

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,…

— James Fenton

I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle…

— Jesmyn Ward

For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the…

— Julia Michaels

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more…

— Tracy Chevalier

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

— Irvin S. Cobb

I am the author of my own life, unfortunately I am writing in oen and cant erase my mistakes.

— Richie

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

— Eric S. Raymond

The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep.

— Mariana Fulger

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

— Anonymous

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

— Amitava Kumar

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

— Edward Dahlberg

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

— George Ade

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

— Casey Wilson

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

— Heather Sellers

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

— Susan Sontag

“The unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable." --Mandy Kellogg Rye, Writer”

— Simone Biles

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

— Bill Cosby

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

— Eudora Welty

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

— Antonio Banderas