Writing Quotes · Page 297

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

— Robert Dessaix

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

— Gwen Stefani

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.”

— Tracy Cooper-Posey

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

— Lisa Stansfield

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!”

— Marja Meijers

“Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a…

— Marilyn Ross

In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've…

— Nell Scovell

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write…

— George Pelecanos

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms…

— Raymond Chandler

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my…

— J. Michael Straczynski

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that…

— Cassandra Clare

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

— Sophie Kinsella

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight…

— Paul Robeson

This is what the Democrats are fighting for. They're fighting for you not to have a job and still have health care…

— Rush Limbaugh

In writing the book I wanted to make it very clear that I feel prostitution should be decriminalized. But some people might…

— Craig Seymour

When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques…

— Veronica Roth

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never…

— Roland Barthes

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So…

— Arthur Plotnik

I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't…

— Seth Godin

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

— Virginia Woolf

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

— Tennessee Williams

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

— Elizabeth Fraser

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

— Natalia Kills

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

— Maya Angelou

This is exactly what I was lokoing for. Thanks for writing!

— Anonymous

“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,”

— Khaled Hosseini

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

— will.i.am

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

— George Michael

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

— Richard Russo

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

— Dan Payne

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

— Kimora Lee Simmons

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

— Umberto Eco

I wanted to write music that would be around for a long time.

— John Waite

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

— Steven Zaillian