Writing Quotes · Page 340

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

— Aaron Shepard

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

— Vikram Seth

“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same”

— Adrian Sandvaer

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

— Bob Kane

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think…

— Michael Morpurgo

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need…

— J. K. Rowling

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

— Muhammad al-Bukhari

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I…

— Carol Burnett

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about…

— Michael Pollan

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some…

— Amanda Shires

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much,…

— Stephen Chbosky

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

— Sherman Alexie

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at…

— Adam Morris

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer…

— Tom Stoppard

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“One’s left-brain controls your numerical skills, reasoning, writing, speech, scientific understanding, and right hand control. It is so paradoxical how we have…

— Lee Vickers

“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays…

— Andrew Davies

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing…

— Gunter Grass

Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good…

— Roy Peter Clark

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben

“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.”

— Stephen Jones

I always enjoy working with Aparna Sen. She is a dedicated and talented actress, writer, director.

— Waheeda Rehman

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

— Anthony Horowitz

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

— Natalie Goldberg

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

— Talib Kweli

“Whenever someone says, 'I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.”

— Bob Odenkirk

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

— Erica Jong

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

— Marianne Moore