Writing Quotes

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in. John Trudell
Day Writing World Rage One Day Mad Writer Never Like Because Than Expected Going Just Where Different Therapy Different World Ever Started Position
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. John Williams
Music Writing Living Earning Dreamed Could Never Youngster Actually Career
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes
Writing Key Feeling Gut Gut Feeling Scene Emotional Failed Cry While
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. Jon Katz
Life Change Writing Animals Other Dogs Continue Goats Cows Donkeys Rooster Grumpy
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. Jon Ronson
Writing Enjoy Solve About Mystery Most Trying
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. Joshua Chamberlain
You Writing Circumstances Pretend Write Know Am Much Letter
Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. Julian Barratt
Day You People Writing World Long Bit All Day Inside Feel Make Talking Sitting Psychotic Create Really Who
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. June Jordan
Me You Natural Writing Law Political Language Sister White Down Lying Our Brother Brother And Sister Unreal Lay Habits Self Weird Like Supposed Schools Holy Choke Why Speech
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Junot Diaz
Hope You Writing Amazing Nothing Everything Sign Easily Promise See No Hope Writer Writes Talent She Well Because Does Any Golden Anyway View Even Shows Keep
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion. Justine Larbalestier
Sad Time Writing Remember Old First Considerable Spending Those Though No Idea About Cases More Writer Colour Never Had Idea Years Five Than Get Trying Wanted Anything Title Novel Right Started
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day. Kate Atkinson
Food Day Conversation Writing Words Wish Clothes Wear Eat Neural Could Names Read Without Blocked Get Same Forgetting Hold Barely Each Each Day
Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed. Kate Klise
Trust Writing Editing Job College Parents Cheating Important Teenager Our Plus Mentors Write Student Allowed He He Or She Message She Gentle Verify Discouraging Trusted Friends Essay Sends Gets Done Anyone Coaches Assignment
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique. Ken Liu
Best Writing Mind Long Society Enough Critique About Tends Deliver Know Contemporary Contemporary Society Been Very Mode Author Fiction Rhetorical Means Works Specific Differently
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. Kenneth Williams
Writing Coward Collected Tried Records Envied Emulate His Whose Technique
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. Kevin Mitnick
Writing Challenge Addicted Viruses Seduction More Stealing Computer Hacking Adventure Causing Intellectual Curiosity Damage
The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. Kevin Smith
Life People Writing Will Value First Down Society Out Tell Entertainers Hoping Ability Having Only Never Print Because Always Go The Only Thing In Print Story Whether Acting Why Thing
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
You Writing Somebody Point Annoy Little
I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. Laurell K. Hamilton
You Yourself Writing Believe In Yourself Will Believe Else Never No-One Always Hobby Profession Treated
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Layne Staley
Music Me Photography Writing Drawing Led Doorway
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. Lee Child
People Writing See How Shy Shy People
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Lee Iacocca
Writing Discipline First Down Something Step Toward First Step Making Happen
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. Leon Uris
You People Writing Down Relationships About Write Between Breaks Basically
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. Marjane Satrapi
Writing Human Being First Drawing Human Being
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. Marshall McLuhan
Writing Care Thought Prominent Magazine Composition More Features Go Than Any Newspaper Far Ad
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. Maya Rudolph
Women Yourself People Writing Power Enormous Seem Fact Write Learned Now Receptive
Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about. Michael Crichton
Writing School Pay About Something Thrillers Write Instead Train Going Order Bills Now Medical Actually Medical School
Load more quotes

No more writing quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025