Writing Quotes · Page 195

I'm a better writer than a performer.

— Ivo Graham

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

— Annie Dillard

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Dorothy Parker

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

— Thornton Wilder

You can never be too paranoid.

— Cathy Crimmins

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

— Jeanette Winterson

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

— David Gilmour

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have the strangest thoughts in my head, maybe I should not write them down.

— Erlend Loe

It's called 'Odd Boy Out' because as I was writing it I realized I was a bit of an oddity as a…

— Gyles Brandreth

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

— George Henry Lewes

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.

— Laurence Olivier

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the…

— Catherine Fisher

“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on…

— Storm Princeholm

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a…

— Dennis Green

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of…

— Kenny Loggins

“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to…

— Mark Twain

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

— Sara Paretsky

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

— Sherman Alexie

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it…

— Penelope Lively

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal.…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I always knew from the beginning that this was the only way to write Then We Came To The End - that…

— Joshua Ferris

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing…

— Neil Strauss

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and…

— David Biespiel

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the…

— David B. Coe

“Writer's Rhyme Word by word line by line, I'm gonna make this writing fine. I'll reread 'til I know that each sentence…

— Peter Siviglia

Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with…

— Nancy Kress

Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can…

— Chath Piersath

“Watching Youtube is not writing.”

— Larry Brown

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

— Chris Ware

“Your pen is your sword. Wield it wisely.”

— C.A. Simonson

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield

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

— Jonathan Ames

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

Other-Love is writing's first name.

— Helene Cixous