Writing Quotes · Page 65

“Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.”

— Cathryn Louis

History is written by the winners.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Why don't you write books people can read?

— Nora Joyce

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

— Iris Murdoch

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

— James D. Watson

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

— Virginia Woolf

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

— Joseph Stalin

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

— Tom Waits

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

— Leonard Cohen

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

— Richard Rodriguez

I write my story in my books, It show that your name filled in my books

— Anonymous

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.

— Anonymous

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

— Suzi Quatro

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

— Freya Ridings

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

— Bell Hooks

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the…

— Lauren Groff

I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch…

— W. G. Grace

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to…

— Alex Garland

“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new…

— Barista Uno

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to…

— Alexei Maxim Russell

“writers regard unjust war as not only immoral, but as one of the greatest of crimes—murder on a large scale.”

— Anonymous

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation…

— Mohammed Arkoun

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music…

— Miranda Lambert

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that…

— James McBride

You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation…

— Anais Nin

If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I,…

— Garth Stein

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you…

— Stephen King

“I write now what 15 years past I would still not have thought possible to write: that if today I were given…

— Clara Claiborne Park

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen…

— John Irving

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the…

— J. G. Ballard

“Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he…

— Kathy Acker

Moving finger writes and having writ moved on

— Omar Sharif

I don't think or write from big ideals.

— Kurt Sutter

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

— Josephus Daniels

“Simply put: writing is rewriting.”

— Ronald Dane

For every 15 jokes I write, only one works.

— Deon Cole

Write about winter in the summer.

— Annie Dillard

“She is a song written for someone else.”

— Jeyn Roberts

I write emotional algebra.

— Anais Nin