Writing Quotes · Page 132

“If you're not writing, you're wronging.”

— Kevin James Breaux

“If We Write It They Will Come!”

— David Jacks

I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

— Jess Walter

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

— Justin Cronin

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

— Hari Nef

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

— Moliere

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

— Isabel Allende

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

— Tom Stoppard

“Yes, I could stop writing... But only after I shoot myself.”

— David Lucero

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

— Padgett Powell

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

— Amy Winehouse

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

— Martin Amis

“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

— Bob Dylan

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

— E. B. White

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories…

— Haruki Murakami

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you…

— Ariel Pink

You're saying it wasn't your insecurities but in actuality, that's what made you leave. Now although the relationship is dead, I can't…

— Needa Muy

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

— Joe Klein

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…

— Paul Di Filippo

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails…

— Lauren Groff

“[August] Derleth tried to prevent any other (non-Derleth-approved) writer from writing Cthulhu Mythos stories.If Lovecraft had wanted bad writers to avoid Cthulhu…

— Kenneth Hite

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse…

— Bernard Malamud

Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing…

— David E. Cooper

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who…

— Anna Quindlen

Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive…

— Ken Tucker

If my stories make people uncomfortable, because it questions your set ideas and value systems that are convenient for a group of…

— Kanika Dhillon

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of…

— Allegra Goodman

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

— Anonymous

“Looks like your porn is in writing, sweetheart.”

— Jade C. Jamison

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

— Doris Lessing

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

— Lennart Meri

I write my songs because I've lived them.

— Katy Perry

Nobody can write stories like Malayalam writers.

— Karthi

I feel a burden if I don't write.

— Amitabh Bachchan