Writing Quotes · Page 122

I could write several books about my life.

— Bob Christo

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.

— Harry Kemelman

“I don't write stories, I write characters.”

— Bhavya Kaushik

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

— Joss Whedon

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

— Nora Ephron

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

— Chris Cleave

I feel like I know how to write plot.

— Mike White

“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.”

— Melodie Ramone

I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

— Jillian Hervey

“Writing has significantly improved my ability to lie.”

— Gerry Stimmler

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

— Anthony McCarten

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

— Clive Cussler

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

— SonReal

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

— Anonymous

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen…

— George Seaton

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible…

— Jonathan Lethem

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

— Terry Brooks

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always…

— Dylan Moran

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.…

— Teju Cole

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man…

— James Thurber

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make…

— Vincent Price

I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can…

— Michael Graziadei

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a…

— Neil Gaiman

“[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others.…

— Melissa Febos

The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the…

— Cecil Roth

As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away.…

— Thomston

In fact, the difference between creative and interpretive, it all starts with the writing. Then if you can get the money together…

— Ciaran Hinds

“Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end.…

— Mary Hogan

“A famous British writer is revealed to be the author of an obscure mystery novel. An immigrant is granted asylum when authorities…

— Anonymous

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

— Anton Chekhov

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

All writing is a process of elimination.

— Martha Albrand

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

— Irvine Welsh

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

— Duff McKagan

“Writing the thing is the journey.”

— Nigia Stephens