Writing Quotes · Page 612

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

— Anonymous

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

— Gloria Estefan

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

— Samuel R. Delany

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

— Wally Amos

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

— Joss Whedon

“Writing is like standing naked in the town square.”

— Rebecca Dartt

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

“There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.”

— Sara Gran

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:…

— Jane Fallon

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

“Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

— Jacques Barzun

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party,…

— Jill Clayburgh

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like…

— Ryan Murphy

“This is your moment now. Go for it. LIVE. Choose to be happy. Choose the life you always wanted. Never settle for…

— Happy Positivity

If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was…

— Tim Cook

I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against…

— Michael Chabon

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love…

— Carson McCullers

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced…

— Queen Latifah

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing,…

— Cameron Monaghan

“Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase,…

— Roy Peter Clark

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

— Suzanne Collins

“Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!”

— Alvi Syahrin

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

— Jose Saramago

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

— Keith Hernandez

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

— Don Rickles

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

— Henry Rollins

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

— Lisa Joy

Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.

— Marti Noxon

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

— George Saunders

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

— Elizabeth Edwards

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I started writing and recording, at a very basic level, just in my own bedroom.

— Katie Melua