Writing Quotes · Page 605

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment”

— Dennis Lynds

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”

— Tim Fargo

“I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong”

— Vicki M. Taylor

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch

For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter…

— Adam Croasdell

I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's…

— John Cassavetes

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the…

— Kathleen Hanna

"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and…

— Lewis Carroll

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

— William Styron

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell…

— Nick Morgan

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will…

— Nathalie Sarraute

George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't…

— Mark Hamill

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because…

— Stephen Hawking

“I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. She…

— Stephen Chbosky

“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was…

— Susan M. Tiberghien

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…

— Michel Foucault

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially…

— Micere Mugo

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…

— George Orwell

In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write…

— David Dayan Fisher

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

— Jim Lehrer

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

I very much enjoy writing about positive, direct emotions.

— Leo Sayer

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

— Mason Cooley

I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination.

— Arlo Parks

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

— James A. Baldwin

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

“I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.”

— Mother Teresa