Quotes about Writing

Explore a curated collection of 10,921 quotes about Writing at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Writing from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headl — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty — W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. — Tennessee Williams
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this ach — Neil Gaiman
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Red Haircrow
You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. — Woody Allen
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy
Like madness is the glory of this life. — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth o — Stephen Fry
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out — Alysha Speer
Paper is more patient than man. — Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires e — Vicktor Alexander
We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future. — Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we s — Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
My life will be the best illustration of all my work. — Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. — Oscar Wilde
Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out.Life is — Charlie Kaufman