Writing Quotes · Page 606

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

— Irwin Shaw

Its hard to hide your stories when its written on your body..

— Patience

“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.”

— robert m drake

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

— Umberto Eco

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

— Red Smith

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

— Bryan Burrough

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

— Sloan Wilson

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”

— Jessamyn West

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and…

— Lucinda Williams

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from…

— Mark Strand

“Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.”

— Ariel Levy

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction…

— Jared Diamond

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a…

— Robert Towne

The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.

— Natalie Goldberg

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest…

— James Salter

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses…

— Anonymous

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the…

— Stephen King

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.…

— Arthur Miller

Step one is to take ownership of figuring strengths ans weaknesses out. It starts with writing them down but, to take ownership,…

— Robert S. Kaplan

Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before…

— Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

“You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady…

— Coleman Dowell

“Self-doubt can be an ally. This is because it serves as an indicator of aspiration. It reflects love, love of something we…

— Steven Pressfield

I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to…

— Michael Pollan

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not…

— Hisham Matar

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

— Jacob M. Appel

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

— Lev Grossman

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

— Alanis Morissette

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

— Rita Mae Brown

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

— Leonard Bernstein

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

— Peter Hedges

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.”

— Stacy Schiff

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

— Kim Tae-hyung

“A word written that is not read, is lonely and sad.”

— RK Cary

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

— Heidi Julavits

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

— James Herbert

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

— Faith Hunter