Writing Quotes · Page 302

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

— Alexander Pope

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

— Raymond Carver

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

— Cecelia Ahern

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

— Joss Whedon

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

— Sherman Alexie

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but…

— Epicurus

“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.”

— Gabrielle Tozer

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

— Danai Gurira

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

— Tess Gerritsen

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as…

— Louise Penny

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a…

— Sandra Cisneros

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good…

— Nicola Walker

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for…

— Beverly LaHaye

I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's…

— Donna Tartt

To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and…

— Anais Nin

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman…

— Aminatta Forna

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That…

— Farhan Akhtar

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…

— Cassandra Clare

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it -…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.

— Mouni Roy

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

— Lois Wyse

“I love to write fun, flirty romances that make you smile.”

— Louise Rose-Innes

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

— Andy Warhol

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James

I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.

— Jackie Torrence

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

“All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.”

— Chris Colfer

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

“Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet