Writing Quotes · Page 665

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

— Nora Roberts

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

— DeRay Mckesson

Twitter is a competition to write the most retweeted witticisms.

— Justin Kan

“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.”

— Kelly Gallagher

“If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.”

— D. VonThaer

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to…

— Anne Fadiman

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch…

— Nell Leyshon

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write…

— Garrison Keillor

I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until…

— Fashawn

“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop…

— Gustave Flaubert

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for…

— Jodi Picoult

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear…

— George Eliot

There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know…

— Carrie Coon

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He…

— Angela Bowie

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my…

— Barbara Kruger

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that…

— Julia Cameron

How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that…

— Anonymous

“I have talents that I'm not supposed to have: I can tell who crushes on who by how they stand, I can…

— Julia Bascom

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the…

— Charles Murray

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and…

— Joy Harjo

“Because it is idiotic. Writing when there's nothing to say...”

— Aldous Huxley

“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO”

— Anthony Antek

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

— Taika Waititi

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

— William Shakespeare

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

— Alanis Morissette

I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

“Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.”

— Jarod Kintz

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

— Wyclef Jean

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I write a lot of shows with outcasts in the lead. Think of Elphaba.

— Stephen Schwartz

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

— Aaron Sorkin

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

— Kevin Smith

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

— Josh Turner

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond