Writing Quotes · Page 158

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,

— Robert Caro

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

— Patrick Stump

“The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola

“I write to close my eyes.”

— Franz Kafka

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

— P. D. James

“It's a finger snapping kind of day.”

— Jamie Weise

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

— Joan Armatrading

Beauty should be about personal storytelling.

— Michele Lamy

“one of the keys to writing is to live a life worth writing about.”

— Anonymous

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

— Jon Ronson

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

— Edward Abbey

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

— Amitava Kumar

“I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.”

— Christy Hall

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Writing is a method for storing information through material signs.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has…

— Melissa Bank

“There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a…

— L. Sprague de Camp

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere…

— Colin Firth

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a…

— Peter Gould

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

— Baron Goodman Arnold Goodman

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained…

— Vanilla Ice

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

— Glenn Tipton

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry…

— Cassandra Clare

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the…

— Jesmyn Ward

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how…

— Natalie Goldberg

“Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through…

— Caitlin Elyse

I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,…

— John Crowley

I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…

— Gene Wolfe

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and…

— Philip Glass

I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I used to love writing in my journal.

— Tyra Banks

I write what's given me to write.

— Philip Levine

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

— Mitch Leigh

“History is written by the legends.”

— Evan Ricafort

A lot of what I write is very personal.

— Elif Batuman

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

— Virgil Thomson

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

— Bernard Malamud