Writing Quotes · Page 689

“Learn with your Mind, Love with your Heart, and Write with your Soul.”

— A. Willow Evans

“A writer must ask the tough questions. It’s the only way to get to the heart of the truth.”

— Tom Winton

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

— Anonymous

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

— Anonymous

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

— Ken Kesey

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

— Ray Bradbury

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more…

— Susan Sontag

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot…

— Passenger

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

— Malcolm Cowley

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

— Viv Albertine

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;…

— Lydia Davis

I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body,…

— Baron Davis

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here,…

— Ruth Pitter

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent,…

— Terry Brooks

When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You…

— Bruce Feiler

I knew Chester. I've known Chester since 2001. I was in a band called Dry Cell, and we were signed by the…

— Jeff Gutt

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert…

— Ezra Pound

For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write…

— Moshe Kasher

I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't…

— Nicole Eggert

In my work at 'Entertainment Weekly,' I had written reviews and news stories about YA books and film franchises and was always…

— Jeff Giles

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

— George Saunders

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

— Carl Phillips

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

— Ken Baumann

“To write is to feel ... with your heart, your mind, and your soul.”

— Paula Baker

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

— Elmore Leonard

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

— Maya Angelou

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

— Drake

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

— Richard Hugo

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

— Annie Proulx

I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

— Junot Diaz

“Every time you make a tweet, a writer develops writer's block.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

— Octavia E. Butler

When you are writing; do it a right thing, because world begins with writing

— Anonymous

I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess.

— Michael McDonald