Writing Quotes · Page 294

“What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about.”

— Julie Wright

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

— Julianna Baggott

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

— Toni Jerrman

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

— Leopold Fechtner

“I live entire lifetimes in my head. Sometimes simultaneously.”

— Cypher Lx

Life is a movie. You write your own script, direct and star in your own.

— IsiahNunn

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left…

— John Burroughs

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What…

— Neil Gaiman

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

— Felix Dennis

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

— Rupi Kaur

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or…

— Patrick Modiano

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd…

— George R. R. Martin

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself…

— Vikram Seth

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't…

— George Harrison

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're…

— Paula Fox

“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I…

— Lisa Schroeder

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to…

— Brian K. Vaughan

A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write…

— Nina Gordon

I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when…

— Joshua Radin

“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to…

— Foz Meadows

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

— Sinead O'Connor

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

— Robert Mark Kamen

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

— Anonymous

“Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.”

— Robin Hobb

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

— Francis Bacon

“I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.”

— Paula McLain

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

— Bill McKibben

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

— Courtney A. Kemp

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

— Erica Jong

I write for anybody struggling to manage their money.

— Michelle Singletary

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

— Rod Serling

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

— William Zinsser