Writing Quotes · Page 315

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

— Jodi Picoult

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

— Gautham Menon

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

— Stephen King

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

— Barbara Tuchman

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

— Peter James

“I want my writing to be as smooth as drinking a glass of water—pool water, with piss in it.”

— Jarod Kintz

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such…

— Samuel Butler

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces…

— George R. R. Martin

“Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and to quote such individuals as if…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by…

— John Mahoney

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business…

— Paulo Coelho

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We…

— Kevin Starr

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a…

— Norman Mailer

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing…

— Dawn French

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of…

— Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned…

— Alanis Morissette

The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do…

— Erin Foster

“Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate…

— Stephen R. Covey

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be…

— Michael Rosen

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…

— Gene Wolfe

If I had a script that I was ready to shoot tomorrow, I'd work on it every day until we got into…

— Logan Lerman

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working.

— Paul Auster

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

— Alan Arkin

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

— Alexander McCall Smith

And thats exactly why I don't write bands on the board. (':

— Anonymous

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

— John Grisham

Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

— Zach Braff

“The word ubiquitous is itself ubiquitous in today’s writing.”

— Jarod Kintz

My ideas come often not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

— Anonymous

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

— Paul Buchheit

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

— Joseph Kanon

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

— Edward Said

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”

— Dorothy Gallagher

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

We write about everything; we are very honest when we write.

— Perrie Edwards

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent