Writing Quotes · Page 89

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

— Dodie Smith

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

— Nora Roberts

Give yourself time to get better.

— Sue Grafton

“Writing is the emotional morphine.”

— Mariam Maarouf

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

— Natasha Leggero

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

— Anonymous

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

The only reason to write is from love.

— Stephen Sondheim

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Bring forth what is true; Write it so it it's clear. Defend it to your last breath.

— Ludwig Boltzmann

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

I've never stopped writing and creating, because that's what I do.

— Larry Graham

You might not write well everyday, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

— Anonymous

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

— Pliny the Elder

If you wanna write what is in your heart you'll be the pen and I'll be the paper

— Anonymous

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

— George Blanda

Writing. like. this. doesnt. make. your. point. any. stronger. It. makes. it. look. like. your. computer. has. asthma.

— Nikhil Saluja

Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.…

— Ned Vizzini

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No…

— Colin Flaherty

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have…

— Candice Millard

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly…

— Jose Gonzalez

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And…

— Colson Whitehead

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years…

— Kent Haruf

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that…

— Benjamin Percy

I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that…

— Donald E. Westlake

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his…

— Emily Giffin

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the…

— Ringo Starr

“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave…

— Laurie Penny

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing…

— Sylvia Plath

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And…

— Nina Nastasia

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Live first, write second.”

— Miranda Paul

This is so much easier to erase than to write.

— Hemantsmarty

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

— Sarah Lancashire

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

— Margaret Mitchell

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

— John le Carre

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

— Irene Cara

“Writing to make people smile :)”

— Dimas Abi