Writing Quotes · Page 661

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

— Dolly Parton

“it was better written than 50 Shades of I Can’t Write for Shit.”

— Michael Finocchiaro

Maybe one day I'll write a full-blown tell-all book.

— Ariana Madix

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

— Marc Cherry

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

— Blaise Pascal

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write…

— Bob Weir

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important…

— Michael Morpurgo

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor…

— John Lescroart

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential…

— Gretchen Rubin

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind…

— Thomas Merton

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a…

— Stephen King

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and…

— Sinclair Lewis

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell…

— Rita Mae Brown

So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery…

— Will Eno

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used…

— Beth Ditto

I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan…

— Bob Colacello

“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such…

— Kyle Muntz

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

— Ernest Hemingway

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

— Richard Laymon

“Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.”

— Paul West

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

— M. Night Shyamalan

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

“Writer’s block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.”

— Archana Kapoor Nagpal

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

— Paul Dano

“I write because words swim around in my head like unruly tadpoles until I do”

— Maureen Tuohy

“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.”

— Nazım Hikmet

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

— Anton Chekhov

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

— Dorothy Allison

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

— Ray LaMontagne