Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and… — Paula Cole
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. — Taryn Manning
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle… — James Ellroy
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of… — Vanilla Ice
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls. — James Broughton
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,… — Herman Melville
My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over… — Connie Britton
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the… — J M Coetzee
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from… — Thomas Jefferson
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. — Moliere
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. — John Steinbeck
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing. — Gordon Lish
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross… — Sam Shepard
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. — Mark Twain
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making… — Willa Cather
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson

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