Writing Quotes · Page 608

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

— Jonah Hill

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

— Roald Dahl

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

— Patrick Stump

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

— Jim Morrison

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound…

— Bradford Cox

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was…

— Emeli Sande

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer,…

— Andre Balazs

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be…

— Gilbert Highet

“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly…

— Eric T. Benoit

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more…

— Norman MacCaig

I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes…

— Jamie Parker

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he…

— Sheldon Friedman

It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man…

— Bob Kane

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if…

— Haruki Murakami

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or…

— Ann Patchett

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then,…

— Kevin Mitnick

“The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. It's a bridge you have to…

— Shatrujeet Nath

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

— Dodie Smith

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

— Jack Vance

Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.

— Ken Loach

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

— Ernest Hemingway

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

— Jack Driscoll

“Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.”

— Rodney Richards

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

— Jan Morris

I am shaped by my community - and I have been supported in my ambition to be an actor and storyteller.

— Lily Gladstone

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

— Lamont Dozier

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

— Matthew Healy

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

— George Stephen

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”

— Anna Quindlen