Writing Quotes · Page 574

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

— Adam Rich

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

— Theodore Parker

That's the life, really, isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

— Rob Halford

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

— David Sedaris

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

— Manju Kapur

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

— Amit Kalantri

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done…

— Randall Jarrell

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make…

— Rita Dove

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I write well in LA, because the pressure is off and I'm surrounded by ambitious people who are really encouraging.

— Dawn O'Porter

I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter,…

— Patti Smith

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is…

— Paul Di Filippo

“When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing…

— Steven Magee

“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when…

— Guy Sajer

I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird…

— Leigh Newman

A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other…

— Henry David Thoreau

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly…

— Matsuo Bashô

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional…

— Amy Tan

It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything…

— Dennis O'Neil

This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean,…

— Achy Obejas

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of…

— Art Garfunkel

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

— Chris Abani

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

— Julia Leigh

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

— Mary McCarthy

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

— Earl Weaver

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

— William Saroyan

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

— Anonymous

“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!”

— Chocolate Waters

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

— Horace Walpole

Everybody writes about what they are talking but I am doing opposite.

— Erdem

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

— John Steinbeck

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers