Writing Quotes

• If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • She
  • Future
  • House

• Scholars have long recognized that Luke himself wrote these speeches—they are not the speeches that these apostles really delivered at one time or another. Luke is writing decades after the events he narrates, and no one at the time was taking notes.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Speeches
  • Scholars
  • Delivered

• I knew my destiny from a young age. Something happened when I was very young and I didn't know what it meant. And slowly but surely I know this is only getting better. Writing I love. The acting will carry on as long as I can remember lines.

  

  David Dayan Fisher
  • Remember
  • Better
  • Acting

• Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.

  

  Conan Stevens
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Career

• That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

  

  John Sandford
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Song
  • Air
  • Bluegrass

• One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Writing

• I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

  

  Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Nice
  • Play
  • Cards

• I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Decided

• Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Expression

• I stopped dying the moment I started writing

  

  Arnon Grunberg
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Dying

• It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • World
  • Writing

• Writing has never been a driving force within me.

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • Writing
  • Driving

• Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Pronounce

• The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Art
  • Ancient
  • Code

• One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Game
  • Political
  • Quality

• The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Writing
  • Game

• We are much better at writing code than haiku.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Writing

• The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Pleasure

• I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Wonder
  • Talent
  • Teach

• I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Stories

• I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Appreciated

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