Writing Legacy Quotes

#1. There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

#2. My writing legacy would be my true depiction of life; exploring the entire colorful spectrum of people, both good and bad, capturing it in words and exposing it to all cultures in a respectful manner - In a way that would stand the test of time.

Diane Martin

#3. Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.

Mike Love

#4. Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Carew Papritz

#5. There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#6. We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

Alia Shawkat

#7. This was one princess who could rescue her own damn self.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.

Walter Benjamin

#9. In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

Aysha Taryam

#10. Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Lowell Thomas

#11. I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

Darrelle Revis

#12. I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

Carnie Wilson

#13. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

Harold Bloom

#14. Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#16. I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. Words often outlive the people who create them.

Amy Neftzger

#18. These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

James Carville

#19. Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.

Simon Van Booy

#20. My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.

Callum McLaughlin

#21. Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.

Ron Fournier

#22. Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

J.R. Tompkins

#23. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

David Auburn

#24. A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.

C.K. Webb

#25. I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#26. The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

Geena Davis

#27. A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

Virginia Woolf

#28. A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ...

Lynda Fisher

#29. Your story must told.
Live a life legacy- written book or notes.
This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Criss Jami