Writing Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it’s not natural to me. So I don’t take it for granted… What I think is my natural ability – which is writing – I think I totally take that for granted.”
– David Duchovny

“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.”
– Amy Tan

“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.”
– Bernard Malamud

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
– Thomas Mann

“Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.”
– Samuel Beckett

“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
– Jessamyn West

“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
– Alex Haley

“Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.”
– Jerry Saltz

“In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all. It showed me criticism‘s future.”
– Jerry Saltz

“Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.”
– Cyril Connolly

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
– Sylvia Plath

“When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.”
– Samuel Butler

“In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.”
– Gore Vidal

“Yeah, I’ve been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.”
– Jeff Bridges

“I’m not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.”
– Enya

“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.”
– Taylor Swift

“I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.”
– Bell Hooks

“The desire to write grows with writing.”
– Desiderius Erasmus

“I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.”
– J. K. Rowling

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
– Hermann Hesse

“The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.”
– Jennifer Aniston

“I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.”
– Christina Aguilera

“I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.”
– Keith Richards

“I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I’m not so censored when I use dream material.”
– Kathy Acker

“Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.”
– William Shatner

“Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.”
– William Shatner

“Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win.”
– William Shatner

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