Writing Quotes · Page 347

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

— Miguel Syjuco

“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or…

— Giveon

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

— William J. Clinton

“I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring…

— Karen Hines

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

— Jason Mraz

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on…

— Robert Musil

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a…

— Warren Adler

“To Scottie July 18, 1940 p.454 The prose talent depends on other factors- assimilation of material and careful selection of it, or…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier.…

— Christopher Cross

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies.…

— Alan Ball

“In a sentiment that Anne Lamott memorably made, urging that perfectionism is the great enemy of creativity, and Neil Gaiman subsequently echoed…

— Anonymous

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience…

— Karen Marie Moning

When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By…

— Robin Thicke

In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when…

— Jimmy Carter

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”

— Khaled Talib

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

— Walter Lord

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

— Larry David

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

— Brad Thor

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

— Emer Kenny

“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.”

— Mara Altman

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers