Writing Quotes · Page 369

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

— Vanna Bonta

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

— Terry Brooks

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

— Neil Gaiman

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

— Chord Overstreet

I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.

— Verite

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

— Anonymous

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

— Zoe Cassavetes

“What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and…

— J.M. Coetzee

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or…

— John Wells

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases…

— Daniel Kehlmann

“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— Ann Patchett

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless…

— Don DeLillo

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white…

— Ice T

“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars…

— Stephen King

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan…

— John Ashbery

If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways,…

— Judith Viorst

I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a…

— John McPhee

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love…

— Andrea Gibson

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that…

— ZZ Packer

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how…

— Jan Karon

Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to…

— Andrew Latimer

What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It…

— Woody Allen

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

— Umberto Eco

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

— Max Landis

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

— Five for Fighting

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

— Alanis Morissette

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

— Tanith Lee

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

“In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”

— Terry a O'Neal