Writing Quotes · Page 581

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

— Dave Mustaine

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

— Stacey Abrams

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

— Anonymous

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

— Chath Piersath

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

— Leonard Cohen

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

— Troye Sivan

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”

— Bill Watterson

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still…

— Alan Lightman

“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest…

— Madeleine L'Engle

After coming toward the completion of Queen Sugar,' I had the opportunity to speak with the executives and head writers at Days…

— Greg Vaughan

I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing…

— M. Night Shyamalan

[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch…

— Trevor Noah

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my…

— William Monahan

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science…

— Frederik Pohl

I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face,…

— Anne Lamott

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for…

— Tom Glazer

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of…

— Cyril Connolly

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time…

— Matthew Ramsey

“Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad…

— Truman Capote

It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter…

— Martin Amis

An infected writer. Sick of the poetry poison injected inside of her.

— Needa Muy

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

— Lou Barlow

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

— Dave Barry

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

— Tucker Max

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

— Edmund White

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

— Alice Walker

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

— Robert Englund

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

— James Franco

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

— Irving Thalberg

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

— Richard Laymon

“Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.”

— Paul West

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama