Best My Writing Quotes
341 My Writing quotes by 279 unique authors
-
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a…
— Suzanne Vega
-
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are…
— Phyllis A. Whitney
-
It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between…
— Phyllis A. Whitney
-
I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I…
— Rob Schneider
-
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
— Graham Nash
-
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase
— Todd Barry
-
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the…
— Terry Tempest Williams
-
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I…
— Ken Saro-Wiwa
-
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting…
— Jim Jarmusch
-
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when…
— Ansel Adams
-
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill…
— Douglas Adams
-
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
— Ray Bradbury
-
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us…
— Philip K. Dick
-
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with…
— Sophie Kinsella
-
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing
— Philip Pullman
-
What I enjoy most are those times when I get an idea and it just flows - the words coming so fast that I'm scribbling…
— Leah Cypess
-
I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having…
— Gayl Jones
-
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one…
— Elizabeth Kim
-
I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.
— Min Jin Lee
-
You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll…
— Doug Peacock
-
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the…
— Zeno of Elea
-
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking…
— Marguerite Young
-
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most…
— Clive Cussler
-
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail
— Laurell K. Hamilton
-
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area…
— Graham Swift
More Ways to Read My Writing Quotes
Who Wrote These My Writing Quotes
279 authors contributed a total of 341 My Writing Quotes, led by these top contributors: