Writing Quotes · Page 334

“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”

— Andy Merton

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

— Taylor Goldsmith

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

— Pam Shriver

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I…

— Dido Armstrong

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes…

— Sophie Kinsella

No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of…

— Nicole Krauss

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction,…

— Dean Wesley Smith

I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand.

— Ruskin Bond

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm…

— Ashley Rickards

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

— Kate Zambreno

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move…

— Anders Holm

“Create a guidebook of creative dreams You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps…

— Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or…

— Robert Pinsky

“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much…

— Richard L. Evans

The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God…

— Henry Clarence Thiessen

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

— Mark Gatiss

“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM”

— Alice Walker

“A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.”

— David Almond

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

— Wayne Static

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

— James M. Cain

“Gun for sure is louder than a Pen, bullet is hotter than Ink, but Death is not a silencer for Pen.”

— Haritha Velpureddy

I want to send you an award for most helpful ientrnet writer.

— Lurraine

I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.

— Fats Domino

We were writing our love story then one day you took the pencil and erased it.

— Sonya Parker

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

— Hans Christian Andersen

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

— Jack Kerouac

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

— Woody Allen

I think women write more fully and honestly than men about heart and home.

— Prue Leith