Writing Quotes · Page 293

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

— Roger Zelazny

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

— Merritt Wever

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on…

— Martin Gore

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

— Helen Gurley Brown

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

— Lorrie Moore

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

— John Cooper Clarke

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

— Donald Miller

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

— Ezra Pound

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write…

— Astrid Lindgren

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are…

— John Steinbeck

“You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know…

— Kamal Ravikant

I was halfway through writing a gothic, country house mystery when, out of the blue, I received an email inviting me to…

— Roland Orzabal

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do…

— Richard North Patterson

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,…

— Jack Prelutsky

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself…

— Haruki Murakami

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden…

— Daniel K Judd

In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,…

— Frederick Lenz

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly…

— Daniel Tammet

With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it,…

— Scott Spencer

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for…

— Ethel Smyth

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him.…

— Neil Gaiman

If you think your demeanor is mellow or not particularly charismatic, the material can life you higher. So write everyday, and get…

— Dane Cook

“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The…

— Tom Miller

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

— Chris Cubas

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

— Edward Abbey

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

— Miriam Toews

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

“Your story isn’t over. You’re just finally holding the pen.”

— Dr. Siidarth Bhattacharya

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

— Geddy Lee

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

— Laurence Sterne

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

— Anonymous

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

— Kenneth Oppel

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

— Kim Carnes