Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Mark Haddon

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Chuck Jones

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Theodore Sturgeon

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John Le Carre

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Piers Anthony

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Nicholas Sparks

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Orson Scott Card

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

Terry Southern

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Mark Haddon

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Jackie Kennedy

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James A. Baldwin

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

John McCain

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Emily Carr

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Andre Breton

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Minoru Yamasaki

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Robertson Davies

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Richard M. Nixon

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Bob Schieffer

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E. B. White

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Lawrence Kasdan

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Poppy Z. Brite

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

Richard King

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Iris Murdoch

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

Morris Hite

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Robertson Davies

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

William Gibson

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw