Writing Quotes · Page 149

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

— Jonathan Carroll

A page of good prose remains invincible.

— John Cheever

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

— Man Ray

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

— Judith Rossner

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Anything can be well communicated through writing.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I write a lot of environmental stories.

— Peter Heller

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

— Willie Geist

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

— Theodore Sturgeon

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

— Daniel Woodrell

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

— Adrianne Palicki

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

“Truthful and loyal. A writer has no obligation to be either, but should choose one less one be chosen for her or…

— Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

— Hanif Kureishi

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with…

— Larry Holmes

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I…

— Roseanne Barr

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive…

— Lawrence Block

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

— Stanley Unwin

“Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written words have an impact that…

— Sarah Holman

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily…

— Anne Lamott

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts…

— Douglas Kennedy

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a…

— Lorin Stein

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that…

— Charles Bukowski

I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the…

— Michelle Rhee

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the…

— Robert McKee

I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best…

— Cynthia Nixon

There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

— Neil Gaiman

“Wilds whisper, yet I long for their roar.”

— Gin Getz

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

— Edward Albee

I like to have a title before I start writing.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Writing is a closed pistachio shell.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

You can't write if you don't read.

— Steve Earle

It's not an idea until you write it down.

— Ivan Sutherland

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

— John Steinbeck