Writing Quotes · Page 220

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

— Amitava Kumar

“I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.”

— Christy Hall

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

— Jon Ronson

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

— Kevin Spacey

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

— Pat Conroy

“Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.”

— Kensington Gore

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

— Wally Lamb

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to…

— Avi

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting…

— Megan McKenna

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

— W. H. Auden

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

— Charles XII of Sweden

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for…

— Luke Temple

Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You…

— Vinita Hampton Wright

A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I…

— Matt de la Pena

“A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The…

— Santosh Kalwar

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds…

— Machado de Assis

I used to wish I would be a painter or a violinist, where maybe I wouldn't need to travel as much. Or…

— Kathy Baker

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,…

— Tim Ferriss

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress,…

— Bruce Springsteen

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

— Maren Morris

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

— Robert B. Parker

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

“A day in which you write something is a day well-spent.”

— Anastasia Marie

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

— Julia Cameron

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

— Lisa Gardner

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

— Guy Johnson

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

— Rod Stewart