Writing Quotes · Page 3

Writers need each other.

— Sara Sheridan

Observe, don't imitate.

— John M. Ford

I really hate to write.

— Jack Kerouac

I like being a writer.

— Terry Pratchett

I write all my hooks.

— Machine Gun Kelly

“I write for change.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

I write my music.

— T-Pain

A writer wastes nothing.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We've always written from personal experiences.

— Keren Woodward

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

I see myself as a storyteller.

— Susanne Bier

If you can write it, I can be it.

— Karen Black

For the love of God, keep writing these airtcels.

— Kailey

When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.

— Patrick Marber

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

I write about what I'm going through.

— Kesha

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.”

— Benjamin Percy

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.

— Ted Alexandro

I've been writing everything from pop to country to blues - just a mixed bag of everything.

— Uncle Kracker

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

— Colleen McCullough

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

— Mark Frost

I have many writings that I would not like it if they were published.

— Shakira

Part of what you try and do when you're writing is to just transcend politics and the moment in a way and…

— Lisa Joy

“Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to…

— Daniels, Leslie

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally…

— Violet Duke

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is…

— Vera Brittain

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things…

— Stephen King

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I…

— Jeff Pearlman

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something…

— Sylvester Stallone

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,…

— Joanne Harris

I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I…

— Elizabeth Berg

I have a journal that I bought, a separate journal just to specifically write about my boyfriend. And in the very first…

— Ethel Cain

I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,…

— Charlie Albright

It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it…

— Jon Hamm

“What Is Fair Process? The theme of justice has preoccupied writers and philosophers throughout the ages, but the systematic study of fair…

— Harvard Business Review

When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and…

— Chinua Achebe