Writing Quotes · Page 203

I want to be a writer someday.

— Andrea Barber

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

— Leslie Fiedler

No person writes to win awards.

— Mo Yan

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Writing is still on my slate.

— Jaleel White

The balls do not make a writer.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“We all have the time we need to tell our stories.”

— Kim Zarins

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

— Nadine Gordimer

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

— Bonnie McKee

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

— Matthew Weiner

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

— Harlan Ellison

“If you can't write, keep trying. If you can't read, ask for help.”

— Greg Strandberg

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

— Piers Anthony

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

— Mickey Spillane

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

— Charles Bukowski

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.

— John Scalzi

“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who…

— Henry Fielding

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap…

— Ice T

“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.”

— Roberto Bolaño

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to…

— Matt Haig

“Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you…

— Jane Alison

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind…

— Michelle M. Pillow

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate…

— Anne Rice

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.…

— Joseph Brodsky

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his…

— Joseph Addison

“I don’t want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I’m naïve, you see. I’d rather moon the moon than flip off…

— Chila Woychik

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and…

— Victor Hugo

I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales…

— Greg Kinnear

“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't…

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

“MURDERED The writing continued until the driver's side glass was clear, entirely swept clean by an invisible finger, until there were so…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were…

— Jerome Stern

I don't believe in writing people off.

— Rico Love

I took a lot of writing courses.

— Danny Strong

I'm like a junkie for writing.

— Gavin DeGraw

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

— Anne Sexton

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

— David E. Kelley

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

— Patti Smith

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart