Writing Quotes · Page 609

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

— Robert Black

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

— Dorothy Parker

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?

— Prince Philip

“[Writers] should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”

— E.B. White

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

— Miranda Hart

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

— Beverly Cleary

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

— Christopher Walken

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even…

— Paul Auster

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first…

— Wally Lamb

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from…

— Edward Hirsch

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive…

— Francesca Lia Block

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear…

— George Eliot

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for…

— Jodi Picoult

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the…

— William Zinsser

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

— Elie Wiesel

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not…

— Aaron Sorkin

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but…

— Stephen King

I think the writers of 'Community' have moved on from my character. I'm pretty sure. I would love to go back on.…

— Eliza Coupe

I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait…

— Louis Sachar

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should…

— Chris Colfer

Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who…

— F. F. Bruce

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend…

— Mac DeMarco

I'd like to write about whatever is going on with me at that point of time or situations I'm - which I'm…

— William Singe

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.”

— R.E. Fisher

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

— Novala Takemoto

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

— Conrad Hall

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

“I don’t charge for the words I write. I charge for joining them together.”

— Daniel Kemp

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

— Lloyd

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

— Joan Didion

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

— Rex Ryan

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I used to do so much writing and fill my scripts with thoughts and monologues and ideas.

— Melissa Barrera

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

— Aristotle

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

— Paul Beatty

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

— Michael Swanwick