Writing Quotes · Page 647

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

— Truman Capote

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

— Ana Navarro

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

— William Zinsser

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

You know, actors say, 'There are no bad roles, there are only bad actors.' Well, comedians, because they're also writers, believe that…

— Sam Seder

Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.

— Jason Reynolds

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like,…

— Lou Barlow

I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't…

— J. K. Rowling

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of…

— Democritus

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms…

— Mitali Meelan

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought…

— Franz Kafka

I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was…

— Carlos Fuentes

“I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very…

— Sanhita Baruah

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where…

— Nina Simone

“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven…

— Douglas Wilson

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true…

— Elbert Hubbard

Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly…

— Alice Munro

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing…

— Roger Ebert

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

There are more films which are being written around women.

— Athiya Shetty

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian

“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”

— Tyhitia Green

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai