Writing Quotes · Page 171

“Only write a story that only you can write. ”

— Alysha Speer

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are all writing God's poem.

— Anne Sexton

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

— Chris Ware

“Watching Youtube is not writing.”

— Larry Brown

You can never be too paranoid.

— Cathy Crimmins

“I hate writing, but I love having written.”

— Dorothy Parker

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

— Thornton Wilder

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

— Todd Barry

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

— Harold Ramis

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

— Lauren Graham

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

— Frankie Cosmos

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

— Tom Verlaine

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary,…

— Sylvester Stallone

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about…

— Kevin Spacey

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and…

— John Dieterich

I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or…

— Geneva Carr

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

— Jay Asher

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate…

— Sara Paretsky

“Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave…

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than…

— Philipp Meyer

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing…

— Kali Uchis

“...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word.…

— Courtney Summers

I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as…

— Andrew Bird

The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What…

— Blake Crouch

I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same…

— Michael Chabon

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me…

— Diana Nyad

“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He…

— Anaïs Nin

My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous. I didn't stop writing after the first album came out and everything…

— Alicia Keys

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

“Satirists are merely impatient obituary writers.”

— David Gustafson

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

— Sjon

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing!”

— C.S. Dixon

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

To write about a place, you have to live there.

— Jonathan Ames

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig