Writing Quotes · Page 304

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

— Ross Mathews

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

— James A. Baldwin

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time…

— Lucinda Williams

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think…

— Sue Townsend

Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed.

— Freya Ridings

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In…

— Anonymous

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by…

— Ben Fountain

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person.…

— Lucy Dacus

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I…

— Mary Pipher

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or…

— Sharon Salzberg

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and…

— Steven Soderbergh

The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by…

— Doris Lessing

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that…

— Neil Gaiman

L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking…

— Francesca Lia Block

Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available to it, which is not always the…

— Anonymous

I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't…

— Katie Kitamura

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf

“Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon”

— Spike Milligan

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Writers write, therefore I'm a writer! Impossible itself says I'm possible.”

— Makayla Redmon

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

— Billy Lawrence

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

— Susan Faludi

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

— Jenna Blum

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”

— A.A. Patawaran

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

— Uzo Aduba

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

No matter where I go, I never write the setlist until I'm at the venue.

— Beth Hart

“I may be a shit writer,’ I remember him saying once, ‘but I’m richer than any of the good ones.”

— William Boyd