Writing Quotes · Page 640

I want to leave my own legacy and write my own story.

— Ryan Garcia

I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

— Borns

“I am only an agent of creativity and I write in order to start an argument and not to conclude it.”

— John Nkemngong Nkengasong

“Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.”

— Nicholas Tucker

The pen: my weapon of defense and attack when I am out of the tatami.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

— Steven Bochco

“For a writer, every rejection is a small cut … until he bleeds to death.”

— Howard Giordano

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

— Morley Callaghan

“I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to…

— Roy Peter Clark

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer…

— Terence Winter

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work…

— Orson Welles

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

— Jay Watson

I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as…

— Dinah Jane

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

— Reynolds Price

Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking…

— Caroline B. Cooney

When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're…

— Alice Mattison

The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of…

— Anne Lamott

“Somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific is a copy of The Forsyte Saga I heaved overboard one afternoon. I very quickly…

— MacDonald Harris

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've…

— Kameron Hurley

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a…

— Alexander Pope

Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will…

— Po Bronson

“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of…

— Violet Winspear

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

— Kingsley Amis

“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

— L.L. Barkat

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

— Charlaine Harris

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

— John Prine

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

— Jose Saramago

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

— Arthur Bradford

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

— Herbert Spencer

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

— Kid Cudi

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

— Cy Twombly

As a writer, I need a creative outlet and that's why I do stand-up.

— Soupy Sales

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

“Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer”

— Himmilicious

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt