Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

On the paparazzi: If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also… — Kristin Hannah
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. — Thomas Jefferson
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all… — William Shakespeare
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be… — Stephen Covey
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing… — Carol Burnett
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that… — Joseph Brodsky
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other… — Rajneesh
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time,… — John Newcombe
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which… — Sarah Zettel
The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb. — Ryan Phillippe
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved.… — Bernard Lewis
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more… — Gish Jen
Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious… — Vivian Gornick
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you… — Paul Engle
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it… — Brenda Ueland
I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write… — Drew Carey

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