Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit… — Truman G. Madsen
Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint… — Brad Pitt
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself. — Winston Churchill
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. — Brian Tracy
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He… — Ernie Pyle
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been… — Alan Dean Foster
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure.… — Ann Beattie
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped… — James Rollins
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn… — Thomas Perry
Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week. — Groucho Marx
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. — Alexander Borodin
I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight.… — Bobby Knight
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself. — Robert Breault
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines. — Fran Drescher
Write about it by day and dream about it by night. — Elwyn Brooks White
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. — Pema Chodron
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. — Kingsley Amis
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
A book should be luminous not voluminous. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Never be so brief as to become obscure. — Tryon Edwards
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are,… — Quentin Crisp
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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