Writing Quotes · Page 87

Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger..

— Natalie Goldberg

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

— Erskine Caldwell

“There's a book in you that only you can write.”

— Chris Baty

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

— Shawn Mendes

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

— Karin Slaughter

I treat writing like a nine to five job.

— Dawn O'Porter

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

— Elia Kazan

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

— Laurence Sterne

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

— Geddy Lee

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

— Kenneth Oppel

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

— Anonymous

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

— George Etherege

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

— Alma Alexander

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

— Flying Lotus

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on…

— Alice Childress

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and…

— David Mamet

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

— Roberto Giobbi

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's…

— Alissa Nutting

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same…

— James A. Baldwin

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in…

— Harlan Ellison

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes…

— Benjamin Clementine

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that…

— Randy West

You find there's no magic trick, sometimes in the shower, sometimes you're just lying in bed calm, sometimes you're just enjoying life…

— Brian Michael Bendis

“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes…

— Gerard de Marigny

One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities…

— Rosanne Cash

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,…

— Edward Dahlberg

“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things…

— John Crowley

I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The…

— Douglas Crockford

Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing…

— Gary Giddins

Most of what I write is comedy.

— Patrick Marber

All that is in the heart is written on the face.

— Anonymous

It was either write or die for me.

— Michael Hastings

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

— Anonymous

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

— Rita Dove

Beware of advice-even this.

— Carl Sandburg

People who say they read more write better.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg