Writing Quotes · Page 565

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

— Tennessee Williams

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

— Maya Angelou

“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,”

— Khaled Hosseini

This is exactly what I was lokoing for. Thanks for writing!

— Anonymous

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

— George Michael

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

— will.i.am

“I wear a helmet when I write, because if you’re doing it right, writing is dangerous.”

— Jarod Kintz

“some cruellity born with immoral taught, because happened what, which the true writer wrote" ― Samar Sudha”

— Samar Sudha

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like…

— Zoe Kazan

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to…

— Alton Brown

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down…

— Thomas Bernhard

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

— William H. Gass

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have…

— Cynthia Weil

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

— Scott McClanahan

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation.…

— Glen Hansard

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me - or dared…

— Juan-Paolo Perre

Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your…

— Jonas Mekas

“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it…

— Anonymous

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

“There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full,…

— M.T. Anderson

I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures…

— Raymond Pettibon

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

— Bill Kurtis

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Whatever's going to happen was already written and no man can change that.”

— Kareem Abdul Rahman

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

— Germany Kent

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

— Kaavya Viswanathan

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.”

— Charles Baudelaire

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

— Heinrich Heine

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

— Walter Mosley

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

— Leon Uris

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

— Robert Dessaix

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker