Writing Quotes · Page 638

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

— Julianne MacLean

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.”

— Richard Bowes

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

— Lewis Grizzard

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

— Pankaj Kapur

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

— Adrian Rogers

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

— Isabel Allende

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions…

— Claire Tomalin

“There was silence. No one looked at me. People pretended to be absorbed in their phones. One writer didn’t even have a…

— Mindy Kaling

The Crown' is a dramatisation based on fact. It isn't a documentary. If it were, you wouldn't get Peter Morgan's writing and…

— Jason Watkins

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do…

— Charlie Murphy

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,…

— Story Musgrave

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

— Rex Orange County

I am hoping to improve my writing and rapping, as well as get a better grasp on how to make beats and…

— Aesop Rock

For some 17 years in living this crazy world,there's only one question running from my head,always,why I can't find a perfect words,when…

— Cath Chatto

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.…

— Lauren Groff

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the…

— Sam Fender

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English…

— Herschel Walker

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a…

— Vaclav Havel

“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor…

— Jack Kerouac

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I…

— Mitch Albom

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of…

— Steven Wilson

Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think…

— David Guterson

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“Half of good writing is having something interesting to say. The other half is saying it well.”

— Walter Kim

“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.”

— Janet Malcolm

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

— Kevin Powers

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

— Jason Mraz

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

— E. M. Forster

“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing”

— Brandt Legg

“Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.”

— Don Roff

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”

— Nona King

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

— Mickey Spillane

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

— Terry Southern

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

— Alexandra Petri

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

— Jack Prelutsky

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

— Anonymous