Writing Quotes · Page 325

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

— Tim LaHaye

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

— Danilo Kis

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

— Debby Ryan

“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

— George Eliot

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

— Stephen King

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

— Anne Lamott

Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.

— Richard Herring

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate…

— Robert Collier

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as…

— Colm Toibin

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt…

— Vic Reeves

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

— Jane Smiley

In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.

— Pankaj Kapur

“Any writer can attest that in the luckiest, happiest state, the words are not coming from you, but through you.”

— Zoe Kazan

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what…

— Evangeline Lilly

Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should…

— William Morris Hunt

I often note that my accent is a result of reading, writing, and speaking in three languages, something that immigrants across our…

— Michelle Steel

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for…

— Rajneesh

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is…

— Robert Ben Garant

“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may…

— John Godfrey Saxe

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the…

— Frederick Buechner

I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I…

— Courtney Barnett

“All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

— Andy Biersack

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

— Henry Miller

“Ch X Title Why Women who do too much house work should neglect it for their writing”

— Brenda Ueland

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

“Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.”

— Christy Hall

“I write down my dreams. I use the excuse “I’m writing” to sleep all the time.”

— Jarod Kintz

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

“People read to escape reality. I write to give them realities to escape to.”

— Radcliff Lance

“My Readers time is as important as mine. I try to write good things worth reading.”

— Brenda Kay Winters

“The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

— Cecelia Ahern

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

— James Mercer

People have been writing songs and poems since the time we had brains.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

— Wayne Static