Writing Quotes · Page 338

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

— Ray Bradbury

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

— Robert McKee

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

“When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.”

— Jarod Kintz

“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.”

— Julie Rodelli

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.

— William Zinsser

“Seriously, deleting IS writing. It's not only adding words that count, cutting does too!”

— Diem Burden

“I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount,…

— John Milton

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe,…

— Mary Collyer

Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for…

— Hilary Mantel

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly…

— Harlan Coben

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes…

— Alex Tabarrok

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want…

— Lake Bell

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of…

— Ann Voskamp

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of…

— Napoleon Hill

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then…

— Jonathan Carroll

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters…

— Novala Takemoto

I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you…

— Ian Rankin

“It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the…

— Blake Nelson

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but…

— David Gerrold

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at…

— Seamus Heaney

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an…

— Megan Chance

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.”

— Gloria Steinem

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

— R. L. Stine

I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating.

— Allison Schroeder

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

“*Okay, you make eating hos sound pretty. talk poetry to me, writer boy.*”

— Christopher Moore

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

— Guy Kawasaki

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”

— Robin Laws

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

— Daniel Wallace

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

— Emmanuelle Beart

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

— Tim Minchin

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

— John Steinbeck

If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.

— Ruskin Bond

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

— Sally Rooney

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

— Derek Walcott