Writing Quotes · Page 630

I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

— Benji Hughes

“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.”

— John Irving

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

— Sabrina Carpenter

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

— Josip Novakovich

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

“The quietest ideas often become the loudest stories.” — Christina Collins”

— Christina Collins

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

“how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be…

— Michel de Montaigne

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the…

— Paul Muldoon

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

— John Sandford

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as…

— Anne Carson

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready…

— William H. Gass

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream…

— Jill Hennessy

“One danger zone is dialogue ... At the moment of ultimate showing, we writers get nervous. ... We allow characters to tell…

— Tin House Books

“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those…

— Richard Wagamese

As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick…

— Billy Collins

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff…

— Ellen DeGeneres

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I…

— Nick Tosches

“Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a…

— Edna Ferber

“The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one…

— Stewart Lee

It felt like an indulgence. Going back was painful, but, at the same time, it was nice to live with them again…

— Jesmyn Ward

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

— Tom Skerritt

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

— Julia Quinn

“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”

— Jonathan Price

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

“Sleep: a time to tell yourself stories not yet written.”

— Philippe Lechermeier

“and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been”

— George Gordon Byron

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

— Jim Beaver

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

— Sylvester Stallone

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

— Lee Ranaldo