Writing Quotes · Page 173

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

— Stephen King

“I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.”

— Stephen Fry

“Good writing just isn't that common.”

— Eric Flint

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

— Anonymous

I write short stories. I write every day.

— Isaiah Mustafa

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Writing makes you more human.

— John Updike

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

— Rebecca Wells

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

— Stephen King

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

— John Irving

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

— Stephen King

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

— Raymond Chandler

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

“To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader .”

— Emily Winfield Martin

Technically, I direct, I'm a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It's just…

— Ryan Higa

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but…

— John M. Ford

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising,…

— Peter Hedges

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and…

— Joel Stein

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None…

— Rachel Cusk

The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song…

— PSY

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read…

— Ethan Zuckerman

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write…

— Kiran Desai

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we…

— Dani Shapiro

Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they…

— Samantha Hunt

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole…

— Alan Bennett

I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed…

— Ian Mcewan

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really…

— Nat Hentoff

“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.”

— Susan Statham

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I write storys to entertain not to be the best

— Anonymous

“Write what you know and be true to yourself.”

— Tracie Ingersoll Loy

“Keep writing. It's all terrible in the beginning.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

— Chris Lilley

It's just a job. I don't like writing.

— Catherine Gaskin

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane