Writing Quotes · Page 678

I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

— David Wilkerson

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

— Plato

My big dream has always been to write and create my own things.

— Arden Myrin

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

— Karen Russell

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

— Bindi Irwin

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

— Pete Hamill

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

I'm a Benedictine Nun in outlook; I divide my time evenly so one third is spent in academe, another third on writing…

— Bettany Hughes

I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people…

— N. T. Wright

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're…

— Miriam Toews

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

— Tonny K. Brown

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

— Brian Aldiss

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit…

— David Shore

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I…

— Richard Russo

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have…

— Erica Jong

When I was a kid I loved to read, but I didn't write and I didn't create imaginary worlds. So, if one…

— Kate DiCamillo

“ How Journal Writing Helps Because of your social anxiety, you may be so afraid that any opinions you have are wrong…

— Heather Moehn

I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I…

— J. K. Rowling

I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the…

— Bruce Hutchison

“When he was in a bad mood, The Writer went to the park. The only place he considered friendly. Not the bookshops…

— Filippo Bologna

People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.…

— Anonymous

“You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you -…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are…

— Theodora Goss

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”

— Beth Harbison

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

— Carolyn Chute

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

— Richard Hawley

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

— Selma Lagerlöf

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

— Joe Sabia

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

— Stephen Sondheim

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

— Dave Mustaine

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

— Stephen King

When writing your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen!

— Unknow

“Men write great romance because they have more at stake”

— PJ Bayliss

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

— Horace Walpole

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

— Cyril Connolly

Living is Like a Writer you write want you want no one cannot dictate you in your self

— Ervin Osorio