Writing Quotes · Page 247

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

— Stuart Sherman

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

— Frances Farenthold

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

— Jeff Giles

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

— Ken Follett

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had…

— David Sedaris

I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun…

— Olivia Rodrigo

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as…

— Jane Yolen

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many people worked hard in order to create 'Crash Landing on You.' I am grateful to the writer, the directors, and all…

— Hyun Bin

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more…

— Richard K. Morgan

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there…

— Lauren Carr

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

— Horace

To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of…

— Talib Kweli

Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip…

— Amy Bloom

Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the…

— Rae Armantrout

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences…

— Billy Collins

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to…

— Ray Bradbury

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy,…

— Roy Peter Clark

“It has suddenly occurred to me to write out word for word all that has happened to me during this last year,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of…

— Misha Collins

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

— Emily Giffin

“If I want to reach your heart with my writing, I must truthfully reach into my heart while writing.”

— Peter Arpesella

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

— Norman Mailer

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

— Amanda Knox

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

— John Steinbeck

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

— Nick Flynn