Writing Quotes · Page 292

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

— Jessica Williams

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

— Erykah Badu

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

— Clive Cussler

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.”

— Jerry Stahl

“He writes like he´s afraid someone might actually understand him.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

— William Gibson

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

— Wallace Stegner

I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there…

— Rachel Kushner

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very…

— Cassandra Clare

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign…

— V. S. Pritchett

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite…

— Rudy Rucker

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

— W. J. T. Mitchell

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't…

— Gavid Hood

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people…

— Ellie Goulding

Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without…

— Paige

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in…

— T.S. Eliot

The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something…

— Nina Bawden

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I…

— Haruki Murakami

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the…

— John Lahr

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

— Gore Vidal

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen…

— Charles de Lint

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about…

— Anne Lamott

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

— Laura Mvula

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

— James Boswell

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

— Corey Smith

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

— Rajkumar Hirani

“From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.”

— Dan Gutman

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

— David Baldacci