Writing Quotes · Page 82

“The only thing worse than writing is not writing.”

— Buffy Cram

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

— Jonny Greenwood

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

— John Ruskin

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

— Mark Boal

I write about personal experiences.

— Ananya Birla

To write is to inform against others.

— Violette Leduc

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

“Remember: Writing is drawing.”

— Danny Gregory

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

— John Sebastian

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

— Jeanette Winterson

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

— Alexander Pope

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

— Harold Pinter

“Writing is a place and getting there is the real art,” Otto Cristóbal Almeida.”

— Samuel Zamarripa

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences…

— James Arthur

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with…

— Gail Simmons

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

— Louis Theroux

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

— Margaret Atwood

The Malayali audience, which appreciates a good story or experiment, is our strength. They don't ask who is the star of a…

— Dileesh Pothan

“I want readers to know I write books I want to read. My goal: to engaged readers like I want to be…

— Greg Alldredge

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I…

— John Ridley

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker…

— Eudora Welty

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very…

— Lisa See

Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

To see your country being destroyed from afar - it's very hard to only watch and do nothing. My writing is the…

— Osama Alomar

“You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you…

— M. Kirin

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.…

— Paul Copan

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges…

— Bryan Magee

Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000…

— Zach Braff

I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things.…

— Tom Ford

I tend to write in the mornings.

— Scott Turow

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

— Stephen King

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

People who can write a book usually do.

— Jilly Cooper

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

— Martellus Bennett

You can fix anything but a blank page.

— Nora Roberts

I'm very comfortable writing.

— Ann Patchett

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.

— Tana Mongeau