Writing Quotes · Page 370

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

— Neil Gaiman

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

— Micah Perks

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.”

— Johnathan Jena

“If it's not right, keep editing until it is. ~ Life”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere.

— Anis Mojgani

Writing is 1% inspiration, 99% not getting distracted by the internet.

— Anonymous

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger…

— William Morris

“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips…

— Sol Stein

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to…

— Robert B. Parker

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into…

— Seth Rogen

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I…

— James Frey

It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

— Joe Haldeman

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be…

— Samuel Johnson

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply…

— Lytton Strachey

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then…

— Bill Gross

“It's wonderful to look back at our old writing and cringe. It simply means we have grown and can write better now.…

— Jeanne Voelker

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to…

— Hilton Als

When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around…

— Lucy Corin

“A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified…

— Thomas Hardy

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about.…

— Vanilla Ice

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment;…

— Joe Dempsie

I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

— Sherman Alexie

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

— Maureen Dowd

I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

— Alice Walker

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

— Susanna Clarke

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

— Myrtle Reed

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

— John Updike

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

— R. L. Stine

How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

— John Updike

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

— Rita Mae Brown

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

— J. K. Rowling

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

— Gilles Deleuze

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

— G. H. Hardy