Writing Quotes · Page 310

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

— Andy Rooney

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

— Gore Vidal

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner…

— Wilbur Smith

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

— Ryū Murakami

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

— Toni Morrison

In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric…

— Stephen Schwartz

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how…

— Joyce Carol Oates

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and…

— Lisa Scottoline

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself!…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I've been writing a lot of road songs. Writing a lot of homesick songs. But once you start playing them out, it…

— Tyler Childers

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox…

— Julia Leigh

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to…

— Howard Shore

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a…

— Steve Antin

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.…

— Chaim Potok

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to…

— Rachel Kushner

“For me, if I have writer’s block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and…

— Brandon Sanderson

There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some…

— Dave Grohl

“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore…

— N.K. Jemisin

The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from…

— Harry Callahan

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

— James J. Kilpatrick

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old…

— Richard Harding Davis

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

— Wallace Shawn

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“I breathe because I must, but I write to take your breath away.”

— J.M. Powers

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a…

— Justin Long

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

— Lisa Jewell

I think I developed a style of writing that was more, I guess, open for people to be able to interpret.

— Griff

I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

— Lena Waithe

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

— Orhan Pamuk

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

— Sophie Hannah

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King