Writing Quotes · Page 562

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

“Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I…

— David McCullough

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young…

— Viola Davis

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

— Julio Cortazar

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

— Ben Eine

“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters…

— Nicholas Trandahl

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

— Gordon Lish

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and…

— Eric Weiner

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made…

— Chris Cooper

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young…

— Anne Enright

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even…

— Agatha Christie

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very…

— Perfume Genius

I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his…

— Gretl Braun

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing…

— Ben Lerner

While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about…

— Milan Kundera

“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story…

— Nicola Griffith

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

— Sara Bareilles

In real life...you can't write 2 sentences on antyhing...but on Twitter you're a philosopher...

— Jerett Parker

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

— Alvaro Morata

“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”

— John Geddes

I'm writing down your favorite things to show you that I've read your letters again.

— A Rocket To The Moon

“What I write about is not war but the courage of man.”

— Cornelius Ryan

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

“I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.”

— Mary O'Hara

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

— Peter Drucker

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

— Alex Haley

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

— Moliere

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

— Charles Dickens

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

— Leonard Sweet