Writing Quotes · Page 6

I wanted to write.

— Christopher Hitchens

I write out of instinct.

— Jerome Weidman

“I write in code.”

— Abigail George

“Writing is rewriting.”

— Alan Winter

I write with all my heart

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Keep calm and write on!”

— Jessica Kinney

I don't write songs.

— John Corbett

All writing is dreaming

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write for all the peoples of all the world.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

— Jack L. Warner

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

— David Foster Wallace

“Words both written and read are my passion.”

— Leslie Austin

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

“Contemplation + action = breakthrough”

— Lada Ray

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

— Maxwell Perkins

Style is to forget all styles.

— Jules Renard

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

— David Brooks

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

— Judy Garland

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

— Micah Perks

I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard.

— Fantastic Negrito

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

— Michel Houellebecq

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

— Matt Groening

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

— Stephen Elliott

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

— Walter Benjamin

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

— Robert McKee

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one…

— Alain de Botton

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when…

— Jeremy Fisher

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me.…

— Bessie Head

First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that…

— Mike Bartlett

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work…

— Kevin Keck

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you…

— Anne Lamott

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to…

— Nobuo Uematsu

I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is…

— Torrey Peters

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into…

— Caleb Carr