Writing Quotes · Page 83

Good writing is like a windowpane.

— George Orwell

A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

— Ethan Coen

“Write, drink and be merry!”

— Maureen A. Miller

“An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

— Irvine Welsh

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

“Writing will always be the last frontier.”

— Julie Elizabeth Powell

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

— James Patterson

“Life is an adventure, and if you can’t live them – write them!”

— Mercedes Keyes

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

— Ovid

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

— John Mayer

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

— Rod Serling

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

— Halsey

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…

— Lynn Abbey

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

— Pippa Evans

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution…

— Graham Nelson

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't…

— Ryan Hemsworth

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but…

— Jonathan McReynolds

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and…

— Julianna Baggott

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities…

— David McCullough

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make…

— Carolina De Robertis

“Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules,…

— Robert Lane Greene

A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in…

— Andre Aciman

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write…

— Neil Gaiman

D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a…

— Amos Oz

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but…

— Rivers Cuomo

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she…

— Isabel Allende

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did…

— Steve Buscemi

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

— Molly Shannon

“If you don't write, then read.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

— Erik Satie

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

Vigorous writing is concise.

— William Strunk, Jr

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

— Killer Mike

Television has raised writing to a new low.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

— Justin Halpern