Writing Quotes · Page 267

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

“Sometimes, all you have to do, is write something dow”

— Vivian Martin

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

— Anne Frank

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one…

— Louis L'Amour

“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers…

— Nupur Tustin

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

— Vivian Gornick

It's a lot of people who can perform, but they can't write. And it's a lot of people that can write that…

— Scarface

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of…

— V. S. Naipaul

“The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll…

— Dermot Davis

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent…

— Keren Ann

“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [ Writer’s Digest Interview…

— Ray Bradbury

When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so…

— Maeve Binchy

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot…

— Chuck Klosterman

There are some writers who don't write about people who do jobs. I'm not going to name them, but you watch one…

— Jed Mercurio

I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee…

— Kemp Muhl

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession…

— Ilana Mercer

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be…

— Paul Theroux

I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

— Carol Kane

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

“I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.”

— Ron Carlson

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

— Brendan O'Carroll

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

— Marc Brown

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

— Sandra Brown

When you get written off, you might be the only person who believes in you.

— Geno Smith

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

— Elvis Presley

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

— Joseph Wambaugh

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

— William Faulkner

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

— Mary H.K. Choi

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

— Michael Connelly