Writing Quotes · Page 233

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

— Wole Soyinka

“Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You”

— Ann Patchett

“I resolve to write a new chapter of my life every new day in the New Year.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.”

— Lauren Hammond

When Im older, I would love to write and direct something and work with Australian people.

— Madeleine Madden

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

— Will Eisner

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

— Lawrence Kasdan

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing…

— Stephen J. Cannell

I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes…

— Peter Heller

“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and…

— L.L. Barkat

I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the…

— Andy Biersack

For me, writing is fun. The day I quit my job and take up writing full time, writing will become just another…

— Ravi Subramanian

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

— Rachel Field

“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in…

— Sherman Alexie

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and…

— Garth Nix

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am…

— Nicole Krauss

“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a…

— Anne Lamott

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be…

— Julian Casablancas

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil.…

— Keith Steinbaum

Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family.…

— Barbara Corcoran

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

— Colm Toibin

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

“No matter how simple the furnishings are, you can always tell a write by his home.”

— Rafeal Alberti

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

— L.P. Hartley

“You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.”

— Robert Galbraith

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

— William Hague

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

— John Updike

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

— Tom Clancy

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

— Rick Riordan

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

— Ravi Subramanian

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I write about things that are really happening, serious things.

— Wilson Pickett

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call

— Bill Walsh

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

— Daniel Tosh

Clearly texting, SMS and chat are very different than writing a letter or email.

— Shiva Ayyadurai