Writing Quotes · Page 312

I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

— Borns

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

— Barry Lane

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

— Vernor Vinge

“People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.”

— Millicent Ashby

The pen: my weapon of defense and attack when I am out of the tatami.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.”

— Nicholas Tucker

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

— Morley Callaghan

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is…

— William H. Gass

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of…

— Josh Radnor

“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked…

— Chila Woychik

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion…

— Padma Lakshmi

“A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.”

— Aldous Huxley

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in…

— David Maraniss

“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.…

— Hanif Kureishi

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus

Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing…

— Anne Waldman

I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another…

— Edan Lepucki

When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids…

— Wayne Gretzky

Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats:…

— Takeshi Kitano

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with…

— Samuel Johnson

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…

— Martin Gardner

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

— Steven Bochco

“For a writer, every rejection is a small cut … until he bleeds to death.”

— Howard Giordano

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

— Kingsley Amis

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

— Isabel Allende

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

— Adrian Rogers

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

— Jason Mraz

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

— Kevin Powers

“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.”

— Janet Malcolm

“Half of good writing is having something interesting to say. The other half is saying it well.”

— Walter Kim

“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing”

— Brandt Legg

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

— E. M. Forster

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”

— Nona King

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

— Sam Shepard

“Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.”

— Don Roff