Writing Quotes · Page 585

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

— Anatole France

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

— Harlan Howard

My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.

— Robert Christgau

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.

— Sharon Needles

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

— Tim Heidecker

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

— Steve Rushin

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When…

— Mary Oliver

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

“And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go.…

— Patrick Ness

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I…

— Danielle Dutton

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the…

— Ajay Devgan

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet…

— Herbert Spencer

Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my…

— Robert Hass

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm…

— Philip K. Dick

Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force…

— Harry Shearer

“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt…

— Jane Austen

We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni…

— Don Alias

Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of…

— Jello Biafra

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

— Zoe Foster Blake

“Don't aspire to be a writer, because you are already a writer”

— Clara Wake

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

— Alice Hoffman

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

— Diane Mott Davidson

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

— Jimmy Breslin

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.”

— Jenny Hayworth

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

— Mick Hucknall

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

— Patrick Dennis

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod