Writing Quotes · Page 73

I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.

— Stephen Karam

I write - and then I write some more.

— Frank Delaney

History is written by winners.

— Alex Haley

“If writing hurts you're doing it right.”

— Christina Strigas

It isn't writing at all - it's typing

— Truman Capote

I only want to write books and movies about women.

— Nick Hornby

“Nothing is written until you write it!”

— Frank Ainslie

Nothing is new except arrangement.

— Will Durant

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

— Earl Weaver

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

— Daphne Gottlieb

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

— William Saroyan

Everybody writes about what they are talking but I am doing opposite.

— Erdem

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

— Horace Walpole

“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!”

— Chocolate Waters

“So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself, to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.”

— Sweara Ahmed

I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working…

— RM

Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

— Anonymous

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer…

— Gene Wilder

I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that…

— MacKenzie Scott

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a…

— Maya Angelou

When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line…

— Catherine Brady

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist…

— Taiye Selasi

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible…

— John Stuart Mill

When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison,…

— Haruki Murakami

I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and…

— Ken Liu

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force,…

— Michel Faber

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels…

— Jenny Lawson

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is…

— Sam Shepard

“Writing is a beast to tame, an energy to transform. Whip that toad into a prince and French kiss it to life.…

— Chila Woychik

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

— Jason Isbell

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

— Joseph Stalin

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

— Mark Twain

56CvT0 Very good blog. Keep writing.

— Laptop Review

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I'm more of an organic writer.

— Skip Marley

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

— Grace VanderWaal

“Genetic code is a divine writing.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident