Writing Quotes · Page 201

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

— John Banville

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

— Anonymous

Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

— Nadeem Aslam

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

— Vincente Minnelli

“You were meant to write this book.”

— M. Kirin

“My story hasn’t been written yet, but I know it begins with you.”

— Emma Chase

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

— Stephen Fry

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

— Amy Bloom

I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of.

— W. Earl Brown

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

— David Mamet

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

— Pema Chodron

I put my thoughts through my work - be it painting, or simply writing.

— Deepti Naval

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when…

— Kaskade

Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all…

— Eric Barker

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let…

— Ai Weiwei

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears…

— Lights

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with…

— Roland Barthes

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the…

— Anton Chekhov

“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the…

— Christopher Milne

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before…

— Edward Albee

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.…

— Susan Sontag

“It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind…

— Sherwood Anderson

When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no…

— Michael S. Heiser

The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized,…

— Jeaniene Frost

“What I hadn’t realized was that, above all else, Favs was a prodigy. Speechwriters, even great ones, tend to lead either from…

— David Litt

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

— Neil Young

What you write chooses you.

— Terry Brooks

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

— Alice Mattison

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

I have so much fun writing for children.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

“I am writing history, and I can't be there.”

— Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

“Imagination is Everything!”

— Anonymous