Writing Quotes · Page 66

I write because I want to have more than one life.

— Anne Tyler

I have two dogs, and I write at home.

— Zelda Williams

“The heart guides the pen.”

— J.R. Ortiz

I'm a schizophrenic writer.

— Lynn Nottage

“Irony is when someone writes "Your an idiot".”

— Anonymous

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

— August Wilson

I only know how to write musicals.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

— Amit Kalantri

WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

— Charles Bukowski

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

— Grace Paley

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

— Robert Cormier

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

— Anais Nin

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

— James Patterson

“The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over.”

— Margaret Atwood

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

— Stephen Leacock

Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how…

— Jay DeMarcus

Getting harder with each time I write, wish I could rewind last night. I had so much fun just kickin' it and…

— Mac Miller

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great…

— Michio Kaku

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take…

— Moira Katson

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written…

— Aldous Huxley

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can…

— William Zinsser

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors,…

— John Kennedy Toole

This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate…

— Herbert Read

The last thing in the world I want to do is write something in memory of Walter Mischel. I still can't quite…

— Maria Konnikova

We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and…

— Salman Rushdie

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over…

— Tim Schafer

I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted…

— Emeli Sande

“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,…

— Anonymous

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

— Philip Pullman

“I feel the most alive when I write.”

— Kristy Brown

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

— Nina Simone

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

— Isabel Allende

You can't write if you can't relate.

— Beck