Writing Quotes · Page 214

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

— Vladimir Nabokov

What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

— Ashley Graham

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Sevyn Streeter

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

— Johnny Vegas

“We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.”

— Meggie Royer

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

— David Guterson

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

— Laís Queiroz

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious…

— Isaac Asimov

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only…

— Daniel Kehlmann

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to…

— Virginia Woolf

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and…

— Noel Gallagher

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all…

— V. S. Naipaul

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with…

— Elon Musk

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was…

— David Nicholls

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a…

— Scott Ian

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from…

— Khalid

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How…

— Joan Didion

If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on…

— Alice Munro

I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to…

— Emily Barton

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,…

— Denise Levertov

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“A fellow writer told me that Richard [Hell] once told her that the best thing about being a rock 'n roll star…

— Lester Bangs

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

— Charles Lamb

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

— James D. Watson

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

— Edward Eggleston

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

— Augusten Burroughs

“One can’t force the mind, body or heart to heal in order to meet a writing deadline.”

— Sarah Gerdes

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

— David Means

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

— Quentin Tarantino

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

— Donna Tartt

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

— E. L. James

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous