Writing Quotes

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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes… — Drew Barrymore
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now… — John Adams
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,… — Roland Barthes
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing.… — Mario Batali
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. — Charles Baudelaire
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. — Scott Adams
I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write. — Emmanuelle Beart
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things… — Unknown Author
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out. — Unknown Author
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into… — William Bernbach
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose… — Samuel Beckett
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none… — Joseph Addison
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
I am a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. — Adele

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