Writing Quotes · Page 259

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

— Henry Mosquera

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

— Steve Earle

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

It is just that heavy metal musicians write in minor keys, and when you do that, you frighten people.

— Ronnie James Dio

“my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me. "Recreation”

— Audre Lorde

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

— Mohsin Hamid

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

— Jessica Chastain

I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I'm voracious for…

— John Densmore

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is…

— Jessica Valenti

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading…

— Guy Johnson

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only…

— Sarah Dessen

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

— Amitava Kumar

“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and…

— John Green

“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of…

— Jane Goldman

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times…

— Masiela Lusha

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of…

— Alissa Nutting

“Frederick Douglass, former slave, extraordinary speaker and writer, wrote in his Rochester newspaper the North Star, January 21, 1848, of “the present…

— Howard Zinn

“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Meet anybody for a drink. Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown,…

— J.D. Salinger

I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and…

— Max Greenfield

'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I…

— Joe Morton

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

— Rita Dove

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

— George Stephen

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

— Anonymous

“If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.”

— William Muller

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

— Taylor Swift

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

— Laura Goode

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.”

— Joan Silber

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

— Charles de Lint

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

— Fumito Ueda

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

— Rod Serling

“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

— Betsy Lerner

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

— Phil Vischer