Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

I don't write letters anymore. — George H. W. Bush
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. — George W. Bush
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their… — George W. Bush
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to… — Sophia Bush
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half… — Candace Bushnell
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses.… — Octavia Butler
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. — Octavia Butler
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for… — Octavia Butler
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have… — Octavia Butler
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. — Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will… — Samuel Butler
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A. S. Byatt
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. — A. S. Byatt
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. — David Byrne
I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. — David Byrne
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Lord Byron

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