Writing Quotes · Page 672

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

— Louise Penny

“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.”

— Derrick Jensen

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

— S. E. Hinton

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

“True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul”

— Kunal Jajal

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

— Joe Haldeman

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

— Jeanette Winterson

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

— Charles Mingus

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of…

— Maren Elwood

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can…

— Arnold Toynbee

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country…

— Tom Brokaw

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is…

— Kathy Griffin

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite…

— Ruskin Bond

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed…

— Lauren Oliver

Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface…

— Kevin Sessums

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of…

— Nick Cave

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was…

— Patti Smith

I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make…

— Matthew Healy

The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew…

— Laura Sydell

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person.…

— Virginia Woolf

One thing I learned that I didn't know before was that I can write. Because I think Glenn and myself, when we…

— Charlie Day

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.…

— Yann Martel

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

— Cornelius Eady

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

— Sting

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

— Jade Bird

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

— Bernard DeVoto

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

— Andy Biersack

Getting kissed by a needle and bleeding every time. The art of writing.

— Needa Muy

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

— Sol Stein

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert”

— Minnie Estelle Miller

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

— Louis Auchincloss

“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself”

— J.K. Rowling

I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.

— Mark Foster

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers

— Ryne Sandberg

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.”

— Rainbow Rowell

I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me.

— Caroline Wozniacki

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

— Carter Burwell