Writing Quotes

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Etgar Keret
- Language
- Roles
- Israel
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe
- Writing
- School

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

Paul O'Grady
- Writing
- Night
- Solitary
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

Esa-Pekka Salonen
Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

Sue Grafton
- Writing
- Sometimes
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

Eudora Welty
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.

Mother Teresa
- Writing
- Heart
- Eye
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Steve Martin