Writing Quotes · Page 350

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to…

— Peter Stillman

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my…

— Oriana Fallaci

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they…

— Steven Cojocaru

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and…

— Elif Safak

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all…

— Abel Ferrara

I wish I would have been more of a maker. I wish I would have been more of a writer. I wish…

— Claire Dederer

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I…

— Ayelet Zurer

I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read…

— Jonathan Franzen

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great…

— Ford Madox Ford

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

! What are you doing here?? And how did you know this was my room?? I was slightly weirded out. I said…

— Jade

Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take…

— Sathya Sai Baba

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…

— Robert Macfarlane

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come…

— Cornel West

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,…

— Steven Johnson

“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”

— Wilco

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.”

— Theodora Goss

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

— Stephen King

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan