Writing Quotes · Page 95

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

— William S. Burroughs

Racist writing is a craft failure.

— Kwame Dawes

“Got to keep the creative juices flowing!”

— Steven Magee

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“(Live + Think) x Different = Write Different”

— Bob N. Boguslavski

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

— Billie Lourd

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

— Anne Frank

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

— Eddie Campbell

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

— Carson McCullers

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

— Taylor Momsen

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

— James Broughton

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

— Rakim

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

— Grace Paley

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

— Lauren Oliver

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of…

— Roger Zelazny

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave…

— Lauren DeStefano

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

— Anthony McCarten

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or…

— Robert Wyatt

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…

— William Strunk, Jr

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The…

— Francoise Sagan

I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the…

— Patricia MacLachlan

There are dialogue writers for a movie, there is a script to be followed... whatever my character says is not a reflection…

— Urvashi Rautela

I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much…

— Mindy Kaling

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.…

— Don Winslow

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best…

— Lindsay Duncan

Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going…

— Jose James

I'm going to call WWE like I call everything. Yes, I'm going to be passionate. Yes, I'm going to be excited, but…

— Mauro Ranallo

“I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians," Roger ventured. "All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to…

— Diana Gabaldon

I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to…

— Paul Dini

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships.…

— Nancy Meyers

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

— Reggie Watts

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

— Enid Bagnold

All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

— Vaclav Smil

“Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

— Caroline Leavitt

I just write mechanical things.

— Barry Zito

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

— William Saroyan

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

— Anne Rice