Writing Quotes · Page 113

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

— James Gleick

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

— Aubrey Beardsley

“Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!”

— Joanne McClean

“By writing books, a man turns into a universe.”

— Milan Kundera

You should write a book, you tell great stories

— Anonymous

“Writing is not a choice for me, it is a calling.”

— Brenda B. Taylor

“How can you expect to write if you can't cry…Ling”

— Shirley Wine

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

— Russell Howard

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

— Tea Obreht

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

— Barbara Tuchman

We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.

— Ryan Grim

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

— Jennifer Echols

“Fear is essential in horror fiction. Gore is optional.”

— Rayne Hall

“There are two simple things that can make writers shine: midnight coffee, and daytime wine.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

— Cat Power

“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through…

— Lenora Champagne

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad,…

— Justin Bieber

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

— Jane Yolen

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far…

— Emily Barton

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

— David Sedaris

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of…

— John Edgar Wideman

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks…

— Majel Barrett

He blinked a couple of times at me then rubbed his eyes in a cute way. I gave a shy smile and…

— Jade

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its…

— Gary Burton

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the…

— Yiyun Li

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until…

— Jane Yolen

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

— Grace Paley

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

— David Remnick

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

— Gertrude Stein

“I write because...it's better than meds!!!!!”

— Elizabeth Anne Porter

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

— Julia Cameron

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

“If you can't talk about, write about it!”

— Tracey Reddick

If you own the story you get to write the ending

— Anonymous