Writing Quotes · Page 342

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

— Eugen Weber

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

— Anais Nin

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

— Matthew Weiner

“The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.”

— David Patneaude

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

— Bob Kane

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

— Hugh Mackay

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

— Janette Rallison

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

— Alison Moyet

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom…

— Sara Sheridan

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American…

— Stephen Karam

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them…

— Lorrie Moore

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught…

— Alice Ripley

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in…

— Sharon Olds

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me.…

— Randy Houser

“As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not…

— Stephen King

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they…

— Rachel Cusk

With my friends, it was always essentially true stories. That's how I always felt about doing King-Cat. This is something that really…

— John Porcellino

“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship…

— William L. Stull

“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a…

— Molly Peacock

The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and…

— Emma Hewitt

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a…

— Sol Stein

I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I…

— Howard Jacobson

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my…

— Nicola Griffith

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

— Chris Colfer

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

— Anita Shreve

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

— Derrick Jensen

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

— Eric Whitacre

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

— Christopher Golden

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie

“Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.”

— John Searles

“How alive was her writing though, how full of force. Those curious, sloping letters.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

— Ion Tiriac

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

— Lana Del Rey

“A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten”

— Cynthia Batten

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

— Jody Hill

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville