Writing Quotes · Page 566

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

— Walter Pater

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

— Adriana Trigiani

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

— John Grant

I'm happy when I'm acting, or singing, or dancing, or tv hosting, or writing. I've done it all.

— Scheana Shay

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

— Anonymous

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform…

— Jeanette Winterson

With writing, I felt like it was just my free place where no one told me what to do because it was…

— Tate McRae

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Writer’s want to write something that’ll live forever. I don’t. What do I care if my writing lives forever if I won’t?…

— Jarod Kintz

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing,…

— Kathy Sierra

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

— Stephen Fry

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.

— John Searles

“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,…

— Terri Windling

The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over…

— Charles Busch

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the…

— Francois Arnaud

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so…

— Christopher Moore

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And…

— Woody Allen

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your…

— Grace Paley

“Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories? A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain…

— T.E. Grau

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

— Margaret Mahy

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”

— Shakirah Bourne

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

— Bruce Springsteen

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

— Jenna Bush

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

— Steve Lukather

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

— Jillian Medoff

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

— Charles Stross

“Writing is not a competition, or a fear. Writing is an art, a passion, a love.”

— Kirsty-Anne Still

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Your writing blows , by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

— Leonard Cohen

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi