Writing Quotes · Page 250

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

— Craig Finn

“He was all surface, written on by those who’d pass him, like a love hotel diary.”

— Christopher Barzak

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

— Christopher McQuarrie

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

— Kay Ryan

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

— Khushwant Singh

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

— Liza Campbell

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

— Doris Lessing

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…

— Sol Stein

“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ”

— Robert Stump

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

— Andre Benjamin

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the…

— Edith Hamilton

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because,…

— Mary Gaitskill

“Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem,…

— Kenneth Koch

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee…

— Karl Pilkington

“I remember writing all kinds of stories as a kid, but I really don’t know what the first thing was. Whatever it…

— Alistair Cross

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they…

— Mindy Kaling

“[Uh-oh, it's bath time for Calvin.] MOM, who sits in the living room, has turned toward the door. Very likely she is…

— Bill Watterson

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being…

— Abraham Verghese

O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up…

— James Joyce

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s…

— Robert Harris

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your…

— Natalie Goldberg

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

“a woman raised her hand and said that her minister had told the congregation that they should never read novels with omniscient…

— Ann Patchett

“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.”

— Orson Scott Card

Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.

— Eric Nam

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

— Johnny Cash

“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

— Per Brinch Hansen

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.”

— Leo Rosten

“It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”

— Orson Scott Card

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

— Francis Chan

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

— Ruth Ware

I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

— Anonymous

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

— Pamela Harriman

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

— Gore Vidal

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar