Writing Quotes · Page 187

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose.”

— David Mitchell

Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?

— Chris Pavone

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

I write a thousand words a day.

— Lisa See

A lot of people may have written me off.

— Julius Randle

I will write another book if I feel like it.

— James Herriot

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

— Bobby Knight

“3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.”

— Vinita Kinra

“Ah the dreams of being a writer… They always smell of old research books and several cups of coffee.”

— Laís Queiroz

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

— Oscar Wilde

Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.

— John Krasinski

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

— Cyril Connolly

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

— Laura Marling

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

— E. B. White

I find myself very, very happy to be a weird writer.

— Anonymous

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

— David Baldacci

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life:…

— Lawrence Weschler

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in…

— Theodora Goss

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same…

— Dorothy Parker

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are…

— Anna Quindlen

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like…

— Jim Morrison

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

— Ruskin Bond

Writing a love song for a girl is no good...but writing one for a Woman...Now that is something different.

— Jasari

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

— Mark Twain

I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I…

— Anonymous

In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed…

— Gregory Orr

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Cherokee stories have been passed down through many generations. Storytelling is an art form. Storytellers are actors, singers, dancers, and mimes who…

— Rennay Craats

I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who…

— Mindy Kaling

My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that…

— Eudora Welty

I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters,…

— Rodney Jerkins

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If…

— Graham Greene

Writing is a job: you must show up.

— Justin Cronin

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

— Jayne Meadows

“...when I write, I seek to see.”

— Kevin Lucia

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

— Dave Brubeck

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

— Mark Twain

I don't really write on paper no more.

— Moneybagg Yo

I have never written anything sexually explicit,

— Lynne Cheney

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

— E. M. Forster