Writing Quotes · Page 636

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

— Louis Kronenberger

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

— Cole Porter

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

— Hugh Lofting

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

— Lily King

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

— Alex Comfort

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

— John Adams

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

— Tara Moss

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there…

— Lynn Povich

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,…

— Joan Didion

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

— Anthony Doerr

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write…

— Cassandra Clare

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I…

— Alanis Morissette

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family…

— Ken Kesey

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or…

— T.H. White

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern…

— George Orwell

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their…

— Nicole Holofcener

It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the…

— Tom Callahan

I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of…

— Quentin Tarantino

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone…

— John Irving

“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of…

— Jean Cocteau

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

— Jenny Offill

“To write a world of fantasy from your heart is to create a world of fantasy in another's mind”

— Rob Shepherd

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

“I’m not afraid to die, but I’m also, not afraid to live.”

— Jason E. Hodges

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

— Anonymous

“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

— Margaret Atwood

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

— Ben Gibbard

“Do you have a clear written purpose of your life? If not, why don't you make it now?”

— Seema Brain Openers

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

— Jon Pardi

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

— J. Anthony Lukas

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”

— Lilian Pizzichini