Writing Quotes · Page 364

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned…THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

— Ken Bruen

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

— Robert Graves

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

— Lindsay Lohan

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

— William Shakespeare

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

— Neil Simon

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs

— Ann Landers

Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum…

— Aaron Bruno

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

— Steve Martin

If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

“You don't need paper to write a letter. You can write letters in your head" -Ruby "What do you mean?" -Virgil "You…

— Erin Entrada Kelly

“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is…

— Shannon L. Alder

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at…

— Anne Lamott

“I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And…

— Brandi L. Bates

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of…

— Edith Grossman

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home…

— Susan Cain

Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same…

— Douglas Lenat

“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at…

— Foz Meadows

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper…

— Ilona Andrews

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all…

— Anonymous

“To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so…

— Thomas More

“Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.”

— Jarod Kintz

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

— Paul Theroux

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

— Stephen J. Cannell

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

— Ray Bradbury

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

— Taylor Swift

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

— Tammy Wynette

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

— Anthony Burgess

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

— Raymond Chandler

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

— Ruskin Bond

Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad.

— Anonymous

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

— Ernest Gaines

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford