Writing Quotes · Page 231

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

— Don DeLillo

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

— Ryan Hurd

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

— Donald Miller

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“WRITING POETRY IS an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop”

— Anonymous

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

— Stephen King

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I…

— Lisa Scottoline

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were…

— Edward Hirsch

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep…

— James Salter

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process.…

— Norah Jones

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really…

— Glen Hansard

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's…

— Willow Smith

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about…

— Mike Bartlett

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you…

— Adam Grant

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war…

— John F. Kennedy

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,…

— William S. Burroughs

A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in…

— Nicholson Baker

“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.…

— Will Advise

Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, "I kind of prefer that."…

— Herbert

I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case.…

— Patrick deWitt

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.

— Shalom Auslander

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

— Tana French

“To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.”

— Arturo Barea

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

— Michael Dirda

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

— John Updike

“The best thing about writing is that your imagination has no bounds.”

— Wayne Ellis

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

— Paula Danziger

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

— Dee Rees

In the mid- to late '70s, there was no one better than ABBA at writing and producing great pop.

— Steven Wilson

When I was younger, I wondered if it was possible to be a good person and a writer.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

— Shane McCrae

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

— Charlaine Harris