Quotes about Writing
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
— Jonah Hill
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
— Ilaiyaraaja
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
— Candace Bushnell
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
— Beth Moore
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
— Lydia Millet
Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
— Amos Oz
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
— William Wordsworth
I was infinitely more useful to my clients when I wrote copy than when I was Chairman of the Board.
— David Ogilvy
Never a day without a line.
— Anonymous