Writing Quotes · Page 593

“Jake's hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted.”

— Kelly Link

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

— Gustave Flaubert

“To the stars, with regards, I write. The sea has called you home.”

— P.d. Vulpe

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

— Edward Abbey

“Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream.”

— Elizabeth Paradise

Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal.

— William Zinsser

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

— Carmen Laforet

I just wanted to write songs that would be amazing live, to interact with the audience.

— Chappell Roan

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

— James Roday

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

— Leo Rosten

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in…

— Plato

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at…

— Emily Dickinson

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do…

— Bryan Burk

“writing consists of thinking of a cool idea, making the promotional art and trailers and never write it”

— me, a professional

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…

— Matthew Scully

“I present a full proof method for discovering whether or not your being a writer, a natural wordsmith, is your gift or…

— A.K. Kuykendall

I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before…

— P. G. Wodehouse

So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television…

— Melina Marchetta

“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was…

— Elizabeth Berg

“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you…

— Agatha Christie

“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long…

— Gerald Murnane

I didn't enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn't really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when…

— Tom Fletcher

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

— Nadine Gordimer

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

— Bonnie McKee

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

— William Cowper

If I had a girlfriend I would write her letters instead of using Twitter.

— Bill Kaulitz

“I wanted to write you a short letter but I hadnt time…so I wrote you a long one..”

— Conor Lynch

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

— Joe Eszterhas

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

— Irwin Shaw

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

— Tammy Wynette

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

— Ken Marino