Writing Quotes · Page 219

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

“Writing is a method for storing information through material signs.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.”

— Sara Sheridan

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

— Bruce Cockburn

“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.”

— Sara Sheridan

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

— Karin Fossum

I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts.…

— Ruskin Bond

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain…

— Hans Arp

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be…

— Max Reger

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

— Richard Armour

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation…

— Oliver

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and…

— Ray McKinnon

Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath.

— Needa Muy

I didn't publish my book until I was 37. So the ability to pay my bills, pay my rent, make a life…

— Leigh Bardugo

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one…

— Tea Obreht

“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it…

— Susan Sontag

“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a…

— Aleksandr Voinov

I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name…

— Tom Waits

Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have…

— Warren Buffett

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Young Castle called me "Scoop." "Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?" "I might ask the same of you," I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to…

— Elliot Mabeuse

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

— Lytton Strachey

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

— Cynthia Weil

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

— Taylor Swift

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

— Gustave Flaubert

Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.

— Mike Birbiglia

U dont have pencils to write ur life ; neither do u erasers to rub out the lines u dont like

— Kevin Knight

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

— Norman Granz

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

— Tim Minchin

“The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.”

— robert m drake

My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.

— Martine Syms

“one of the keys to writing is to live a life worth writing about.”

— Anonymous

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

— Joseph Brodsky

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

— Jason Gann

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

— Edward Abbey