Writing Quotes · Page 598

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

— Raymond Chandler

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

— Scott Turow

Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.

— Elia Kazan

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

— Gustave Flaubert

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

— Don Mattingly

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

— Sam Altman

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

— Tea Obreht

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea…

— Anthony Lane

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need…

— Sxip Shirey

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have…

— Victoria Chang

I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my…

— Gen Urobuchi

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,…

— Salman Rushdie

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so…

— Giorgio Moroder

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how…

— Alice Walker

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That…

— Annie Dillard

The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish…

— Jack Johnson

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual.…

— Marguerite Duras

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…

— Koren Zailckas

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something…

— Christopher Nolan

You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you…

— David Auburn

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk…

— Nadine Gordimer

There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some…

— Joe Swanberg

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

— Angela Cartwright

“You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good…

— Jayce O'Neal

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

— Kevin Sessums

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

— Jules Renard

“If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”

— Toba Beta

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

— Moliere

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

— Firoozeh Dumas

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

“Though I believe it's beyond the power of any mortal to completely relieve my prose of typos.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”

— Daphne Athas

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

— Lily Collins

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

— Ellie Kemper