Writing Quotes · Page 282

“What some people call a nightmare, a writer calls a plot.”

— James Paddock

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

— Anonymous

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

— Grimes

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

— Leo Tolstoy

“will you be the one reading the book or writing the book”

— Abe

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

“Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.”

— Mallika Tripathi

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

— Robert Benchley

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can…

— Mac Barnett

“More and more I don't have any philosophy about writing, except that it is something we can do if God is good…

— M.V. Carey

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now,…

— Charlie Kaufman

“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of…

— Frank Ocean

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what…

— Sophy Burnham

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume…

— Dar Williams

I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same…

— William Powell

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes……

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read…

— Tiffany Haddish

I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made…

— Gail Simone

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The…

— Ted Alexandro

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the…

— Dav Pilkey

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

— T. S. Eliot

“Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts”

— Pam Houston

I am not a great fan of serious, heavy writing. I prefer simple, short sentences, light on prose.

— Ravi Subramanian

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.

— Joe Maddon

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

“Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.”

— Lauren Hammond

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

— Lauren Groff

I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

— Irvine Welsh

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

— Joss Whedon

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

— George Orwell

“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.”

— A.H. Browne