Writing Quotes · Page 74

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

— Lewis Carroll

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

— Gabby Barrett

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

“Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.”

— J.P. Donleavy

Writing well is the best revenge.

— Dorothy Parker

“I will write my name in fire red.”

— Jean Rhys

“Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?”

— Charles Frazier

I'm very lucky that I grew up writing.

— Maisie Peters

So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

— Brian Ferneyhough

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

— Glen Cook

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

— Norman Mailer

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

— Edith Sitwell

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

— Jeff Daniels

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

— Thomas Harris

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

— Arthur Smith

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally…

— Ted Dekker

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after…

— Tina Fey

“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.”

— Sara Sheridan

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and…

— Chelsea Cain

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

— Chris Martin

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the…

— E. O. Wilson

The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.…

— Robert Pinsky

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy…

— Big Sean

“But by 1925 Fawcett had filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a…

— David Grann

I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a…

— Jenji Kohan

And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To…

— Debra Messing

There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first…

— Linda Pastan

Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook.…

— Yukimi Nagano

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had…

— Gary Sherman

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

— Dacre Montgomery

Writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

— Anonymous

I don't exist without writing.

— Jewel

“If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!”

— Buffy Andrews

I almost don't know how to write an email.

— Marjane Satrapi

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg