Writing Quotes · Page 296

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

— Anne Lamott

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

— Richard Wilbur

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be…

— Tanith Lee

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important…

— Matthew Specktor

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints…

— Anonymous

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth…

— Anonymous

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and…

— Nick Laird

“A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.”

— Anonymous

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

— Hilton Als

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure.…

— Leonard Cohen

“Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better,…

— Robert Fanney

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of…

— Sloane Crosley

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a…

— Nick Flynn

It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world…

— George Carlin

What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,…

— Frederick Buechner

“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study…

— Yaa Gyasi

I just wanted to keep writing, playing and going out touring.

— Jack Savoretti

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

— Bill Kurtis

“I wear a helmet when I write, because if you’re doing it right, writing is dangerous.”

— Jarod Kintz

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

— Robin Lim

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Whatever's going to happen was already written and no man can change that.”

— Kareem Abdul Rahman

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

— Vladimir Lenin

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

— Kaavya Viswanathan

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

— Germany Kent

“For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.”

— Charles Baudelaire

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

— Heinrich Heine

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

— Leon Uris

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

— Walter Mosley