Writing Quotes · Page 228

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

— Christina Baldwin

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

— Ed Westwick

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

— V. S. Naipaul

It doesn't matter to me what's trending or what is written about me.

— Amrita Rao

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid…

— Ellen Kushner

“From The Red Sox Reader: "The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better…

— Dan Riley

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

— Mark Haddon

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

— Ayad Akhtar

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

— Brian Tracy

“I’m a writer.”It took a second to click. Then Blake chucked. “Not just any writer. She writes paranormal porn.”She turned, and snarled…

— Hazel Gower

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where…

— Tom Barbash

“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,…

— Omar Khayyam

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those…

— Newt Gingrich

“I've recently noticed how often I find my characters on a tropical beach during some part of many of my stories. There’s…

— Annette Broadrick

I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that…

— Junot Diaz

“Who’s your friend writing to?” Kilian asked. “She’s covered both sides of the paper.” I sobel laughed. “You.” “Me?” He touched his…

— Jane Washington

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into…

— Terry Pratchett

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world…

— Jessa Crispin

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then…

— Erik Larson

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

— George Lucas

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

— Gary Shteyngart

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

— Moliere

“Inspiration doesn't lead to writing. Writing leads to inspiration.”

— Ellery Akers

“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”

— Irvin S. Cobb

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

— Bugzy Malone

“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.”

— Flavia Idà

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

— William Trevor

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

— Margaret Atwood

“If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.”

— Richard B. Knight

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

— Skylar Grey

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

— George A. Sheehan

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

— Brad Hall

I enjoy writing poetry more than seeing people in real life. To me most people are the same.

— Jeremy Limn