Writing Quotes · Page 212

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

— Harrison Birtwistle

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

— John Updike

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

— Roxane Gay

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

— Terry Brooks

I normally don't like writing blogs that contain very little positivity.

— Jill Zarin

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— Ann Patchett

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white…

— Ice T

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless…

— Don DeLillo

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan…

— John Ashbery

“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars…

— Stephen King

“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips…

— Sol Stein

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger…

— William Morris

“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come…

— Maeve Binchy

Writing might be unalloyed joy, were it not for the fact that power is always shadowed by responsibility. Thankfully, the absolute power…

— Brian Stableford

When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to…

— Jeremy Irvine

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is…

— Lee Hall

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited…

— Julia Cameron

I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.”

— Victoria Schwab

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

— Brit Marling

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

— Vanna Bonta

“Don't give up and just keep writing! If you write well...followers will come!

— Timothy Pina

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them.

— Jon Bellion

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

— Doris Lessing

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

— Marti Noxon

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

— Andrew Vachss

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

— Teresa of Avila

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri