Writing Quotes · Page 139

I've never been a fast writer.

— George R. R. Martin

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

— Ray Bradbury

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun.

— Rian Johnson

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

“Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...”

— Nanette L. Avery

That's what my life is, writing songs.

— John Cale

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Trying to write on a deadline is like trying to have an orgasm with a gun to your head.”

— Kim Gruenenfelder

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

— Terence Winter

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

— Robert Mugabe

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

— Brooke Fraser

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I…

— Michael Dirda

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to…

— Margaret Haddix

“Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with…

— Michael J. Goulding

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking…

— Rob Thurman

“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is…

— Leslie Jamison

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I…

— Alice Hoffman

“When it comes to the discipline of writing, grades create utter chaos for students and teachers. —Katherine Bomer, Hidden Gems, p. 150 Grading”

— Patty McGee

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a…

— Lorrie Moore

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger…

— Jane Austen

I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to…

— T.C. Boyle

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music.…

— Macklemore

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his…

— Anton Chekhov

“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

“My writing is how I maintain.”

— Mark Salzman

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

— E. L. Doctorow

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

— Ronald D. Moore

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman