Writing Quotes · Page 671

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

— Jim Boeheim

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

— Garth Hudson

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

— Brad Barkley

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

— Tom Stoppard

“The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book.

— Sudha Chandran

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

— Robert J. Sawyer

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and…

— Sutton Foster

So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to…

— Sudha Murty

“Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art.”

— Jeff Goins

I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.

— George W. Bush

It was a high-class problem burden, but it was still a burden on 'The Vampire Diaries,' in which we had this group…

— Julie Plec

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

— Merrill Markoe

There are people who assume that Christianity is about the afterlife and that our chief problem in this life is that we…

— Marcus Borg

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid…

— David Bowie

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers…

— Salman Rushdie

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the…

— Quentin Tarantino

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…

— Annie Dillard

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“In the last essay he wrote before he died, the great Christian writer C. S. Lewis said, “We have no right to…

— Billy Graham

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

— James Scott Bell

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

— Marlon James

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

— Oriana Fallaci

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

— Madonna Ciccone

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

— Lewis Carroll

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

Writing code means always having to say you're sorry.

— Paul Ford

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

— Larry Niven

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.

— Anonymous

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

— Fiona Apple

While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.

— Glen Duncan

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

— Gertrude Stein

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

— Julian Barnes