Writing Quotes · Page 679

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

— Robert Kiyosaki

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

— Yance Ford

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

I love to grab my thoughts and write it down before I loose it !!

— Glen Rambharack

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far

— Claude C. Hopkins

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

— Barry Gibb

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important…

— Patrick Ness

Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember…

— Sharon Van Etten

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading…

— Alexander Herzen

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the…

— Craig Zobel

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first…

— Paul R. Hill

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

— Leonard Cohen

There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing…

— Edwidge Danticat

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.…

— Emeli Sande

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded…

— Janet Fitch

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates…

— August Wilson

Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea…

— Vandana Singh

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for…

— David McCullough

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down…

— Ayn Rand

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

— Shirley Knight

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

— Laeta Kalogridis

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

— Peter Davison

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

— Diablo Cody

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

— Donald Harington

“He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.”

— John le Carré

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

— George Takei

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

— Baltasar Gracian

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

— Kin Hubbard

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

— Giancarlo Esposito

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

— Daniel Alarcon

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer