Writing Quotes · Page 381

“after a miles time, writing leads me to write lines, this made forgot my past.. and made me new...”

— Will's

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

— Ernest Hemingway

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

— Nachman of Breslov

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

All my favourite writers have come from humble beginnings.

— Lucy Beaumont

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

— Peter De Vries

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

I found that direction is the most enjoyable part in filmmaking. The easiest and most comfortable is acting and the loneliest and…

— Anoop Menon

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

— Anne Lamott

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or…

— George Russell

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It…

— Junot Diaz

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what…

— Melissa Bank

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;…

— Tom Stoppard

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when…

— Sophie Hannah

I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the…

— E. B. White

“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“All writing is rubbish. People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going…

— Antonin Artaud

I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has…

— Karla Souza

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept…

— Vaclav Havel

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.…

— T.C. Boyle

I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst…

— J. K. Rowling

I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love…

— Aaron Tippin

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

— Anne Tyler

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

— Gautham Menon

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You have to write about what keeps you up at night.”

— Judy Goldman

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

— Margaret Deland

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.”

— Stephen King

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

— John Cale

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

— Patton Oswalt

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

— Sarah Pinborough

“I didn't start writing late. I started when the story was ready and so was I. Writing@55”

— Trice McIntyre

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

“Writing gives you a reach to the stars, That reach means there is NO CEILING!!!!!!!!”

— Maija Monreaux