Writing Quotes

18562 Writing quotes by 6643 unique authors

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
I have to live the content, then come back and write about it. — Heather Armstrong
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me. — Ree Drummond
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When… — Lady Gaga
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign… — Robert Pattinson
Probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages… — Robert Pattinson
When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it — Art Buchwald
The script changed so much over seven months and just had loads and loads of re-writes. I tried to tailor things to what I was… — Robert Pattinson
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to… — Corey Taylor
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others… — Washington Irving
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? — Henry James
Writing is not primarily escape, but use. — Henry James
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at… — Samuel Johnson
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults. — Samuel Johnson
I am a part of all I have read. — John F. Kieran
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. — W. P. Kinsella

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