Writing Quotes · Page 286

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

— Haruki Murakami

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

— Ruth Bradley

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

— Gulzar

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

— Julie Andrews

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

— Emma Donoghue

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join…

— Anne Roiphe

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the…

— Barry Lopez

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of…

— Lela Loren

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or…

— William Allingham

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

— Ray Davies

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am…

— Roger Ebert

“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without…

— Elizabeth Buchan

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

— Gertrude Stein

Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and…

— Madonna Ciccone

But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but…

— Ian Mcewan

Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news…

— Joshuah Bearman

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a…

— Matthea Harvey

“There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix…

— Maggie O'Farrell

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction…

— Gerald Horne

I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the…

— Nick Earls

“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for…

— Jonathan Swift

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

— Ally Condie

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

— Richard Ford

“good storytelling is good because the characters — not the author — are in charge.”

— Sean Platt

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

— Colman Domingo

“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

— Ava Gardner

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

— Van Hunt

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

— Martha Nussbaum

“Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

— Susan Wallace

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

— Emile M. Cioran