Writing Quotes · Page 309

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

— Naomi Novik

“you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school ..”

— The 1975

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

— Ben Mezrich

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

— Chet Williamson

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

— Voltaire

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

— John Hughes

“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.”

— Darynda Jones

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are…

— Ann Patchett

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a…

— Aaron Sorkin

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones…

— William Faulkner

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the…

— William Gibson

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

— Robert Bloch

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a…

— Albert Camus

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

— Gabriel Fielding

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part…

— Judd Apatow

I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret…

— Hannah Fry

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of…

— Jane Horrocks

I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so…

— Rei Kawakubo

Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the…

— Steven Levy

“All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all…

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit…

— Maxwell Perkins

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

— Matthew Reilly

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

— David Simon

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

— Oscar Wilde

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

— Tara Westover

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

— Kendrick Lamar

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

— Ann Voskamp

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

— A. S. Byatt

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh

Indulging in the inspiration that you have written within the words..

— Raghib Clitso

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.

— Mark Hoppus

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

— Frank Sinatra

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha