Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want… — R L Stine
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me. — Ray Bradbury
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. — Margaret Laurence
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! — John A. Macdonald
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. — Sigmund Freud
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's… — Don Mattingly
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with… — Jeffrey Archer
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation… — Neil Simon
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.… — T. Boone Pickens
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think. — Sean Connery
After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of… — Alan Jackson
I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in… — Chris Rock
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to… — Ann Hood
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd… — Brad Meltzer

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