Writing Quotes · Page 563

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

— Tama Janowitz

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

— T. J. Miller

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

— Amit Bhatia

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

After we pass on all the writing we did will go in history books. After we pass on all the pictures we…

— Anonymous

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is…

— William Wordsworth

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

— Stan Getz

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You…

— C.C. Chapman

“The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster…

— Phillip Connors

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all…

— Marsden Hartley

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop…

— Rufus Wainwright

You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of…

— William Zinsser

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded…

— Georgette Heyer

“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these…

— Jacqueline Woodson

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing…

— Dave Barry

I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct.…

— Tim Winton

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to…

— Isabel Allende

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.…

— John Steinbeck

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

— David Mamet

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

— Anne Lamott

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

I just wanted to keep writing, playing and going out touring.

— Jack Savoretti

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

— Richard Wilbur

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

Just don't be afraid to be yourself and write whatever comes out.

— Skrillex

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

— J. B. Priestley