Writing Quotes · Page 619

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

— Raymond Aron

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

— Rajkumar Hirani

“If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.”

— Chila Woychik

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Clarence Day

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're…

— Rakim

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove…

— Elie Wiesel

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten…

— Cary Ann Hearst

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps…

— Lloyd Jones

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.…

— Simon Schama

“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.”

— Dermott Hayes

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a…

— Tom Berenger

“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's…

— L.M. Montgomery

Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don't have the ability to take a long period…

— Sarah Polley

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage.…

— Pete Townshend

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away…

— Julie Burchill

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time…

— Jeff Kinney

I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which…

— Monica Ali

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who…

— Dana Spiotta

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

— Seymour Hersh

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

— Nina Bawden

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

— Robert Gottlieb

“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

— Sigrid

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

— Peter Sotos

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

— Amy Clampitt

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

— Lisa Unger

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

— Cate Blanchett

“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.”

— Paul Valéry

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

— Holly Lisle

“Coffee is for writing and tea is for editing. I don't know why but it just is.”

— C.E. Wilson

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

— Chuck Klosterman

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

— E. B. White