Writing Quotes · Page 63

“My image is who I am, but not what I write.”

— Brian M. W

If you can talk, you can write.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

— Earl Wilson

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

— Michael Easton

To read and write is a paradise.

— Carlos Fuentes

“A good man is hard to write!”

— Tabi Wollstonecraft

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

— Charles Lamb

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

— Al Purdy

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

— Tom Winton

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

— Mary E. Foster

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

— Keith Hernandez

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

— Douglas Adams

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

— Dana Gioia

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”

— Thomas M. Cirignano

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my…

— Maya Angelou

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…

— Jesse Eisenberg

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

— Quintilian

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in…

— Christopher Eccleston

“In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong.”

— Eric T. Benoit

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

— Shirley Manson

I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the…

— Kellin Quinn

Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to…

— Dale Watson

There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems,…

— Derek Walcott

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,…

— Florence King

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if…

— Teju Cole

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could…

— Emma Donoghue

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration…

— John Dufresne

We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there…

— Theresa Wayman

“The important papers the Founders left us were the most significant writings in recorded history after the Holy Books, a magic trek…

— George Sorbane

Cheers pal. I do apprceiate the writing.

— Anonymous

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

— Lisa Unger

Nature never writes a blind hand.

— Thomas Starr King

“A writer's job is never finished.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

— Jesse Kellerman

You have to write what you know.

— Taika Waititi

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

— Chris Cleave

To write love on her arms.

— Anonymous