Writin Quotes

#1. You've never had a quick jump in the hay in your life."
"I could learn, maybe."
"You couldn't fornicate if you wanted to."
"I could try."
"It would take love or hatred to arouse you, and either one would require a slow and stately procedure.

John Steinbeck

#2. Ah!' he said, slowly turning his eyes towards me. 'Well! If you was writin' to her, p'raps you'd recollect to say that Barkis was willin'; would you?' 'That Barkis is willing,' I repeated, innocently. 'Is that all the message?' 'Ye-es,' he said, considering. 'Ye-es. Barkis is willin

Charles Dickens

#3. Every town you go to, they tell you what's special about their town. What they're number one at ... This guy comes up and says, 'D'you know that we're the home of the world's largest frying pan?'
' ... Really! That is great 'cause I'm writin' a new book called Things I Don't Care About.

Tim Hawkins

#4. They think they're runnin' the country but all they're doin' is writin' the reports." From Homesteader; Finding Sharon by D.M. McGowan

D. M. McGowan

#5. Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

Ken Kesey

#6. An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's deid! Ye cannae tell me that's right!

Terry Pratchett

#7. After he died, my mother was like a crab: she tucked everything inside and left only her shell.

Kathleen Glasgow

#8. That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.

Libby Trickett

#9. I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's
usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.

Ludacris

#10. You'd better stop readin' and writin' and start hittin' !

Mickey Rivers

#11. I hated that he made me feel. But, mostly, I worried about the haze clouding my mind whenever he was around.

L. Duarte

#12. Ya writin' a book? Hey great. Need some help? Want some of my quips? Hey, we could do it together. We'd quip 'em to death. Give 'em quiplash hee hee hee.

Ken Dryden

#13. It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Charles Tupper

#14. We did Shakespeare last year at my old school ... But I can't fake it in Math. I can't even ... what's the opposite of faking it?

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?

Henry D. Spalding

#16. You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.

Chris Tucker

#17. Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.

Laura Moncur

#18. I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name.

Drake

#19. If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Ronnie Van Zant

#20. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Winston S. Churchill

#21. I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

Merle Haggard

#22. There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Writin' Is Fightin'!

Ismael Reed