Writing Quotes · Page 658

When you are writing; do it a right thing, because world begins with writing

— Anonymous

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

— Drake

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

— Ken Baumann

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

— Carl Phillips

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

— Maya Angelou

“To write is to feel ... with your heart, your mind, and your soul.”

— Paula Baker

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

— Elmore Leonard

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing…

— Charles Van Doren

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe…

— Jim Butcher

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

— John Green

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from…

— Garrison Keillor

The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and…

— Jesse Armstrong

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song…

— Carl Sandburg

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when…

— Bob Odenkirk

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs…

— Johnny Van Zant

“You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have…

— George Garrett

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts…

— Willie Nelson

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked…

— Charles Kettering

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond…

— Francine Prose

The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as…

— Augusten Burroughs

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

— Donald McKay

Both writing and thinking, like children, require plenty of patience till growing up.

— Mariana Fulger

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

— Amit Ray

“...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...”

— John Geddes

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.

— Lauren Weisberger

In the marriage, dialogues and sounds of the woman are written and directed by the man.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

— Ruskin Bond

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”

— Gustave Flaubert

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

— Ryan North

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

— Matthew Stover

“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.”

— Will Schwalbe

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

— David Cronenberg