Writing Quotes · Page 378

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

— Arundhati Roy

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony

“Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

— Yiyun Li

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman

“For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.”

— Diane Setterfield

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

— Mason Cooley

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

— Richard Armour

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and…

— Ray McKinnon

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation…

— Oliver

Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath.

— Needa Muy

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages…

— Anne Fadiman

“Ruthie will help you write it.” There. Problem solved. Ruthie was a teacher. She wrote sentences all the time. “Have”

— Anne Bishop

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when…

— Don Marquis

I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background…

— Julia Holter

I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a…

— John Congleton

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley…

— Terry Pratchett

It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone…

— Bill Watterson

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and…

— Roshon Fegan

For a long time, I bought into the idea that if you are a woman who is a storyteller and a lover…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method…

— Rachel Cusk

I put a lot of my studies into my music and my writing. I want to be able to address real life…

— Trip Lee

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career,…

— Nathan Englander

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

— Kate Mulgrew

“Each blank page is an invitation to write; filling the space, however, is a challenge.”

— Paulo Ricardo Zargolin

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

— Sydney J. Harris

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

— Derek Sivers

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

— Robert Christgau

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

— Elif Batuman

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

— Nora Roberts

I have to write pretty songs; that's what gets them on the charts.

— Nicky Jam