Writing Quotes · Page 319

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

— Jenny Offill

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

— Anonymous

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

“I’m not afraid to die, but I’m also, not afraid to live.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

“To write a world of fantasy from your heart is to create a world of fantasy in another's mind”

— Rob Shepherd

“She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father…

— David Benioff

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone…

— Mary Higgins Clark

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely…

— Tracey Emin

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

— Terry McMillan

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that…

— Richard Russo

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I…

— Matt Sorum

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

— Sunny

I began writing 'Amanda Wakes Up' in 2012 as an outlet for frustration over what I was seeing in TV 'news' at…

— Alisyn Camerota

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.…

— Anne Bronte

Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen…

— Ted Kooser

I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am…

— Julian Baggini

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are…

— Jesmyn Ward

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had…

— Angie Thomas

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

I don't know exactly what it is, but it looks like interconnected websites where people show their photos and write about everything…

— Jay Asher

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm…

— Ben Kingsley

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

— Margaret Atwood

“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

— Jon Pardi

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

— Ben Gibbard

“Do you have a clear written purpose of your life? If not, why don't you make it now?”

— Seema Brain Openers

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”

— Lilian Pizzichini

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

— J. Anthony Lukas

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

— Masiela Lusha

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

— Anais Nin

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

— Leslie Fiedler

“It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?!”

— Martha Sweeney

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

— Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“N.B. – Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.”

— W.C. Sellar