Writing Quotes · Page 795

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

— Robert Morgan

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

— David Sedaris

Life is a notebook , 2 pages are already written by god … 1st page is birth . Last page is death…

— Ashj

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far…

— Emily Barton

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad,…

— Justin Bieber

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.…

— Nicole Kidman

“Janet Murray’s book Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace is a spirited and unrelentingly optimistic defense of new…

— Wheeler J_Robinson

When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they…

— Michael Dirda

I don't regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into…

— Jaap Stam

“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness…

— robert m drake

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers.…

— Jillian Sullivan

A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think…

— Noam Chomsky

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do…

— John 5

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through…

— Lenora Champagne

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from…

— Terry Pratchett

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when…

— Natasha Trethewey

Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies…

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is,…

— Phillip Lopate

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

— Rob Urbinati

“I write when I'm inspired and I see to it that I'm inspired at 9 o'clock every morning. Peter de Vries”

— Anonymous

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

— Ken Baumann

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

— Don Rittner

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue,…

— Karin Slaughter

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive…

— Phil Elverum

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a…

— Robert Christgau

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or…

— Ray Bradbury

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and…

— William Zinsser

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm…

— Joanna Baillie

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,…

— Toni Morrison

“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep,…

— Mark Helprin

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong…

— Colleen O'Connor

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected…

— James Redford

I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If…

— Jenny Lewis