Writing Quotes · Page 288

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

— Anne Tyler

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

— Robert Kirkman

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

— Alexandra Petri

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

— Richard Powers

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

— John Maynard Keynes

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I…

— Tracy Chapman

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write…

— Steve Earle

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement.…

— Paul Muni

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that…

— Barry Lane

“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so…

— Abhijit Naskar

Marriagea book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

— Anonymous

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

— John Berridge

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.…

— Cassandra Clare

“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by…

— Phillip Lopate

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more…

— Hu Shih

I'm bullish on writing. Movies, radio, television, and now digital media - everything was supposed to push us away from text, to…

— Tim Carmody

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I…

— Robert Stone

“The better a writer, the better he erases his footprints- yet the better the writer, the more he wants us to intuit…

— André Aciman

I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by…

— David Seltzer

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that…

— Stanley Crawford

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”

— Lang Leav

“History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.”

— Kate Mosse

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

— Chris Hardwick

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

— David Brin

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

— Garrison Keillor

“These words I write, why I decided to write them, none of it will matter”

— Emily Curtis

“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing,”

— Anonymous

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

— E. B. White

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

— Leslie Fiedler

I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

— Michael Grunwald

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden