Writing Quotes · Page 303

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

— Kristen Bell

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

— Sherwood Anderson

“If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!”

— Junnita Jackson

A good essay is 10% inspiration, 15% perspiration, and 75% desperation.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I sit down and write, but I can write in my head line by line.

— Kodie Shane

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

— Anonymous

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you…

— Madonna Ciccone

To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen…

— Cherrelle

“Says I to myself” should be the motto of my journal. It is fatal to the writer to be too much possessed…

— Henry David Thoreau

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for…

— Cynthia Voigt

“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.…

— Ann Patchett

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with…

— Vangelis

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story…

— Christine Sneed

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three…

— Jodi Picoult

A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work…

— Caryl Phillips

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write…

— Isabel Allende

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking,…

— Anna Boden

“When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak…

— Howard Zinn

There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do…

— Ramez Naam

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's…

— Miriam Toews

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape…

— Alicia Ostriker

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

— Jack Kerouac

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

— Anonymous

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

— Alan Bennett

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

— Nicole Blackman

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

— Sarah Dessen

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

— Amy Winehouse

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

— Fred Schneider

“Never hurt writers. They may forgive you, but their pen never does.”

— J. Alchem

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

— Robert Frost

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

— Alberto Moravia