Writing Quotes · Page 243

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

— Richard Eder

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

— Henry Mancini

Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.

— Ian Rankin

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

— Patricia Hampl

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

— Keren Woodward

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

— Richard Bach

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking…

— Lillian Hellman

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school…

— Meg Cabot

“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment…

— R.M. Engelhardt

...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or…

— Roland Smith

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you…

— Frank Deford

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t…

— Stephen King

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is…

— Jennifer Egan

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing…

— Henry Winkler

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative…

— Kate Zambreno

I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,…

— David Sedaris

“What do I love most? Working with words. Words in a sentence are like pieces of a puzzle; you try out a…

— Barbara Delinsky

Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that…

— Zadie Smith

You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,…

— Anne Rice

The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the…

— Thomas Ligotti

My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back…

— Joss Whedon

“You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.”

— M. Kirin

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

— John Sentamu

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love. If only I could remember ...”

— Lynda Fisher

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

— Truman Capote

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

— Michael Shanks

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan

“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.”

— Ambrose Bierce

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

— Helena Christensen

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

— Marty Meehan

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

— Donald Barthelme

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

— Theo Van Gogh

“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”

— Lillian Cauldwell