Writing Quotes · Page 329

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

— Roger Waters

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

— Cyril Cusack

“Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.”

— Diane Glancy

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

— Rita Mae Brown

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

— Anna Todd

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

“In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are…

— Jacob Mandel

I'm an actor, and it is not for me but for the writer to offer the best role to me. For me,…

— Barun Sobti

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the…

— Mary Lee Settle

“As a writer, I need more exposure. I think I’ll take off my pants. Would you mind if I kept my penis…

— Jarod Kintz

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the…

— Oscar Wilde

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer…

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the…

— Charles R. Jackson

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's…

— William Devane

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on…

— Patricia Wentworth

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never…

— Nell Zink

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to…

— Veronica Roth

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter.…

— Sam Shepard

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is…

— Rumaan Alam

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to…

— Lynn Flewelling

“Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly…

— Nescio

I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to…

— Rebecca Hamilton

“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.”

— Gillian Marchenko

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo

“Writing is my soul food, sometimes I eat alone, sometimes I share the bread.”

— Marie H. Curran

“Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

— Robert Frost

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

— Christina Baker Kline

“Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

— Neil Jordan

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

— Samuel Johnson

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

— Adrian Pasdar

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

— Elizabeth Reyes

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

— John Mellencamp

“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn