Writing Quotes · Page 615

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

— William H. Gass

“When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

— Don DeLillo

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

— Vavasor Powell

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

— John Brown

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot…

— Dick Schaap

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not.

— Mohanlal

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

— Susan Burton

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

— Liza Campbell

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if…

— Dionne Bromfield

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand…

— Christine and the Queens

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on…

— Alden Nowlan

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane.…

— Dave Barry

Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a…

— David Hayter

“I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it. Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.…

— Theresa Breslin

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen…

— Albert Camus

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was,…

— George R. R. Martin

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and…

— Langston Hughes

If we do change anything, we always talk about it beforehand. It's not really fair to throw things at the director on…

— Lyndsy Fonseca

I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a…

— Sue Grafton

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

— Martin Parr

“Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.”

— robert m drake

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

— Derek Sivers

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

— Robert Christgau

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

— Nicky Jam

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

— Nora Roberts

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

— Elif Batuman