Writing Quotes · Page 376

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

— Gerald Asher

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

— Kinky Friedman

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

— Joe Trohman

“All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

— Adriana Trigiani

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

— Christopher Meloni

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she…

— Rainbow Rowell

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes…

— Trent Reznor

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting…

— John Michael McDonagh

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places…

— Sarah Pinborough

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age…

— Clive James

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

I didn't publish my book until I was 37. So the ability to pay my bills, pay my rent, make a life…

— Leigh Bardugo

I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course.…

— Sarah Mlynowski

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I…

— Vera Nazarian

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering…

— Justin Cronin

“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had…

— Graham Robb

My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long…

— Alex Garland

Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had…

— Anonymous

You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I…

— Garance Dore

I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for…

— Martha Wainwright

“A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

— James Newton Howard

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

— L. Ron Hubbard

When you write for an orchestra, the sky's the limit.

— Michael Giacchino

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition.

— Jo Beverley

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

— Andre Gide

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

— Pope Francis

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

— Alistair Maclean

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

— Karin Slaughter

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

— Gabourey Sidibe

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

— Kat Edmonson

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

— Padgett Powell

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

— Britney Spears