Writing Quotes · Page 314

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

— Jaroslav Seifert

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

— Taiye Selasi

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

— Fawn Hall

I always start with writing vocal melodies before writing lyrics.

— Sigrid

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

— Drew Goddard

I can't write my films in La-La Land. I don't know how to write for my characters like that.

— Kabir Khan

I don't know where I belong, I don't know where I went wrong, but I can write a song.

— Anonymous

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead…

— George Noory

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why…

— Ally Carter

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind…

— Adriana Trigiani

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response…

— John Green

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

— Greil Marcus

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or…

— Carrie Jones

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I…

— Tom Stoppard

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals…

— Ayn Rand

I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to…

— Warren Zevon

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to…

— Jennifer Weiner

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no…

— Jack Garratt

As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American…

— John Bolton

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it…

— Sara Zarr

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…

— Bruce Sterling

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print…

— Kate Mosse

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week.…

— Daniel Clowes

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.

— John Prine

“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

— L.L. Barkat

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

— Charlaine Harris

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

— Herbert Spencer

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

— Arthur Bradford

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

— Jose Saramago

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

— Kid Cudi

“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

— James Blunt

“Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer”

— Himmilicious

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

— Tom Stoppard

As a writer, I need a creative outlet and that's why I do stand-up.

— Soupy Sales

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

— Cy Twombly

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver