"It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it."
Read quote
10 likes
Writing quotes
Writing
30.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Writing
Browse quotes that often appear alongside writing — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Writing quotes (page 87 of 1537)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears."
Read quote
10 likes
"Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical."
Read quote
10 likes
"They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist."
Read quote
10 likes
"She lives the poetry she cannot write."
Read quote
10 likes
"The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat."
Read quote
10 likes
"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
Read quote
10 likes
"I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write."
Read quote
10 likes
"Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love."
Read quote
10 likes
"A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out."
Read quote
10 likes
"They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family."
Read quote
10 likes
"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it."
Read quote
10 likes
"Writing is a political instrument."
Read quote
10 likes
"If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real."
Read quote
10 likes
"Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry."
Read quote
10 likes
"The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business."
Read quote
10 likes
"Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration"
Read quote
10 likes
"Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design."
Read quote
10 likes
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
Read quote
10 likes
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery."
Read quote
10 likes