Writing Quotes · Page 94

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

“I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.”

— Neil Gaiman

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.

— J. M. Coetzee

“Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki”

— Julia Suzuki

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

— Franz Kafka

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

— Stephen Karam

Write only of what is important and eternal.

— Anton Chekhov

“How many things can I do without?”

— Socrates

“My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.”

— Irfa Rahat

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

— David Carr

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

— Kid Rock

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

— The Undertaker

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

— Judy Blume

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

— George Orwell

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a…

— Antony Beevor

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part…

— Johann Johannsson

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

— Matthew Healy

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the…

— Langston Hughes

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were…

— Andres Segovia

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just…

— Patrick Marber

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at…

— Diane Cilento

“The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available to it, which is not always the…

— Anonymous

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to…

— Ruth Jones

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book,…

— Margaret Atwood

Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of…

— Kwame Dawes

What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot…

— Karin Tidbeck

I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life…

— Frank Warren

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing…

— Al Yankovic

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In…

— Roger Ebert

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses…

— Judd Apatow

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Envy won't make you a better poet.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

“No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.”

— Jeffrey Ford

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

— Italo Calvino

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

— John Dufresne