Writing Quotes · Page 61

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

You write in order to change the world.

— James A. Baldwin

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written

— Edwin Louis Cole

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

— Brooke Hogan

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

— Herman Koch

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

— Waldemar Januszczak

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

— Anton Chekhov

“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”

— Christopher Bram

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

— Manuel Puig

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

— Ryan North

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

— Judy Woodruff

“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can…

— Maegan Cook

The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that…

— Clayton Christensen

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for…

— Anonymous

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant…

— Fannie Hurst

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At…

— Charles Bukowski

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

— Michael Rosen

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to…

— Mark Kurlansky

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…

— Anonymous

There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know…

— Carrie Coon

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my…

— Barbara Kruger

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He…

— Angela Bowie

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that…

— Julia Cameron

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the…

— Charles Murray

“I have talents that I'm not supposed to have: I can tell who crushes on who by how they stand, I can…

— Julia Bascom

“I write there for I promote!”

— Heather Briggs

I don't like to write boring books.

— Frank Peretti

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

I have to be inspired to write a song.

— Brett Young

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

— H. L. Hunt

I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.

— Stellan Skarsgard

“Teaching writing is a hustle.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

— Marsha Norman