Writing Quotes · Page 306

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

— Ray Bradbury

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that…

— Rajkummar Rao

“What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.”

— Will Advise

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced…

— Kenneth Koch

A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a…

— Jay Sean

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and…

— Elif Safak

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is…

— George Bernard Shaw

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would…

— Ali Smith

In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North…

— Jay Michaelson

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire…

— Mo Rocca

“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“By far, the hardest part regarding a work of art, apart from the start, is knowing precisely when to stop...It's growing up,…

— Criss Jami

If you make a book which is little more than putting a television script on the page, and add a few pictures,…

— David Starkey

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“But even the longest dedication is too short and too commonplace to honor a friendship so uncommon. When I try to define…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the…

— Philippa Pearce

“To say we know a person is to write that person off.”

— Yiyun Li

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”

— John Piper

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

— Peg Bracken

“A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.

— Zoya Akhtar

“I am proof positive that wolves write doggie-style...”

— Arnold Wolf

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

— Robert Bly

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

— Nizar Qabbani

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

— Julia Glass

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

— Terrence McNally