Writing Quotes · Page 262

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately Im writing in pen and I cant erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

— Moby

“I write for teens (I am one!) and I hope to help them connect with the writings and enjoy reading.”

— Cali Amber

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

— John le Carre

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

— Guillermo del Toro

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally…

— George Bernard Shaw

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

— Toni Morrison

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I…

— Steve Berry

Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my…

— Jonathan Lethem

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

— Melanie Martinez

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

— Michael Crichton

“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This…

— Terry Pratchett

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your…

— Robin McKinley

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue…

— Terence Fisher

“An idea in your head is merely an idle notion. But an idea written down, that's the beginning of something! Stripped down…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I…

— Frank Miller

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false…

— Jonathan Coleman

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time…

— Lauren Groff

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own…

— Afrojack

He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate.

— Needa Muy

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

— Jess Walter

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”

— Steve Aylett

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“If you can’t be of good character, write a good character.”

— Rosen Trevithick

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

— Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

“Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.”

— Cherise Wolas

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

— Billy Joel

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

— Ken Kalfus

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

— Maxine Kumin

It's not till after you pass when people appreciate your worth..

— Raghib Clitso