Writing Quotes · Page 260

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

— Catie Curtis

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

— Margaret Wise Brown

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

— Karl Kraus

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

— David Eddings

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

— William Styron

“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.”

— Edmund Alexander Sims

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

— John Wesley Harding

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and…

— Kathleen Rooney

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty…

— Tracy Letts

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…

— John Fowles

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and…

— William Shenstone

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that…

— Steven Spielberg

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of…

— George Eliot

“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, 'Me…

— Diane Setterfield

I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize…

— Staceyann Chin

“Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or…

— F.T. McKinstry

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…

— Bill Roorbach

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that.…

— Kay Ryan

When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought…

— David Sedaris

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…

— John Fowles

“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

— Lauren Conrad

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

— Sara Genn

Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.

— Frederick Barthelme

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

— Anonymous

“Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after”

— Janet Fitch

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”

— Bernard Jan

“yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams”

— john j geddes

“Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.”

— John Gardner

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

— Robert Morgan

“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.”

— Thomas Keneally

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

— Kate Adie

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

— Greg Graffin

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

— Rod Serling

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

— Nick Blaemire