Writing Quotes · Page 653

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

— A. P. Herbert

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

— H. L. Mencken

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

— Walter Bagehot

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

— Edwidge Danticat

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

— King Tuff

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as…

— Tobin Bell

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached…

— Lily Koppel

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when…

— Skye Warren

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some…

— Alice McDermott

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you…

— Anonymous

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime…

— Sophie Hannah

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even…

— Margaret Atwood

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write…

— Anthony Bourdain

I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual…

— Henry Dunant

A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring…

— Dan Chaon

I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years…

— Freddie Mercury

“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to…

— John Crowley

When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope.…

— Anne Lamott

“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave…

— Midwest Book Review August 2013

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years…

— Victoria Hanley

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music…

— Sol Stein

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

— Jeffery Deaver

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

— Edward Steichen

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

— Gail Honeyman

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

— J. B. Priestley

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

— Bill Watterson

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

— Taylor Swift

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

— Ian Gillan

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

— Pete Townshend

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk