Writing Quotes · Page 639

“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.”

— Shannon Alder

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

YLu9Hj I loved your blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Cheap

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

— Anne Carson

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

— Amit Kalantri

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

— Padma Lakshmi

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

— Nina Nastasia

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to…

— Allen W. Wood

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make…

— Cristina Saralegui

Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places.

— Steven Rinella

I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense,…

— Harley Pasternak

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many…

— Andy Ihnatko

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write…

— Dolly Parton

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away…

— Gaby Hoffmann

“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us.…

— Steven Pressfield

I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to…

— Rob Urbinati

I have written scripts, so I look at a part the way a writer would. That is, I look at it and…

— Terry Crews

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a…

— Carson McCullers

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People…

— Alan Bennett

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do…

— Stefan Zweig

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I'm a little more laid back when it comes to writing. I don't like to do scheduled writing-type stuff. However, I've written…

— Uncle Kracker

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

— Michael Pollan

I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions.

— Jesse Armstrong

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

— Quincy Jones

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

— Dani Shapiro

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

— Nick Denton

Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.

— Sean Stone

“Rejected pieces aren’t failure; unwritten pieces are.”

— Greg Daugherty

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”

— Millicent Ashby

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

— Vernor Vinge

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

— Barry Lane

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante