Writing Quotes · Page 648

“Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.”

— Glen Hirshberg

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”

— Anonymous

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

— Louise Mensch

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's…

— Chris Pavone

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

— Boris Johnson

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't…

— Hilary Liftin

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty…

— Miley Cyrus

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories…

— Ben Okri

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense…

— Anne Enright

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have…

— Adele

with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music.…

— Thomas Jefferson

When you are in the midst of writing a book, I think it is important to touch base every day. If I…

— Emma Healey

The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and…

— Nick Laird

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays…

— Fay Weldon

I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by…

— Guy Maddin

We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of…

— Roger E. Olson

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the…

— Estelle

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

— Brom

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

— Meg Rosoff

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

— Caterina Sforza

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

— Robert Hass

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

— Gustave Flaubert

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

— Christopher Hitchens

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

— Sophie Hannah

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges