Writing Quotes · Page 275

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

— John Muir

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

— Rachel Zucker

“You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.”

— Lisi Harrison

“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”

— June Davidson

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.

— Wright Morris

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

— Larry Kramer

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when…

— Sylvester Stallone

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

— Ruskin Bond

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success…

— Shonda Rhimes

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall…

— Wole Soyinka

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I…

— Ai Weiwei

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my…

— Mindy Kaling

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I…

— Lauren Groff

One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild.…

— Laurie Sheck

The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write…

— Courtney Hood

“Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which…

— Julian Barnes

I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to…

— Gary Giddins

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

— John Edgar Wideman

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

— Travis Morrison

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

— C. S. Lewis

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

— Oscar Wilde

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

— John Muir

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

— John Denham

Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.

— Andre Aciman

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

— Raymond Carver

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

— Gary Panter

If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution.

— Megan Abbott

“I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart”

— Judy Croome

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

— Hugh Leonard