Writing Quote by J. B. Priestley Download Open image “Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.” — J. B. Priestley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written… — George H. Scithers Copy Share Image
“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer who does… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself,… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
