Writing Quotes - page 12

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world. (Paul Kane)
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human. View quote
Shirley Knight
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. View quote
Sydney Pollack
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. View quote
Sara Paretsky
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. View quote
Tobias Wolff
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. View quote
Tom T. Hall
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. View quote
Venerable Bede
I started writing songs at age 15. View quote
Vince Clarke
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing. View quote
Vince Gill
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me. View quote
Vincent Bugliosi
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
I started writing songs when I was eight. View quote
Wiz Khalifa
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. View quote
John Adams
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? View quote
Dennis Potter
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. View quote
Hilary Duff
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming. View quote
Alain de Botton
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea ... are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them. (Douglas MacArthur)
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. View quote
Umberto Eco
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. View quote
Georges Simenon
Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world. View quote
Paulo Coelho
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm. View quote
Paulo Coelho