Writing Quotes · Page 385

“My ocean lives in the air! I have written it there.”

— Ivy Love Brown

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Banks

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

— Mark Haddon

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

— Nelson DeMille

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

— Scarlett Thomas

“I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.”

— B.J. Novak

“I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.”

— Ronald Sukenick

'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful…

— Luis Fonsi

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of…

— Fannie Hurst

“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things,…

— Caleb Carr

“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan…

— Dan Ahearn

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and…

— Woody Allen

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.'…

— Claire Cameron

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with…

— Allison Joseph

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at…

— Hart Crane

If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on…

— Alice Munro

I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to…

— Emily Barton

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,…

— Denise Levertov

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“A fellow writer told me that Richard [Hell] once told her that the best thing about being a rock 'n roll star…

— Lester Bangs

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go…

— Debra Dean

“In a 16-episode series titled “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” the writers pitted the Man of Steel against the men in white…

— Will Pearson

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book…

— Neil Gaiman

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

— Michael Ondaatje

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

— Gaston Leroux

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous

When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.

— Jack Thorne

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

— Riff Raff

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

— Sarah Pinborough

When you've found yourself, there's no more need to pretend..

— Raghib Clitso

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

— Laurence Shames

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

— Tim Berners-Lee

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

— Clive Thompson

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

— Randall Jarrell

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

— Elmore Leonard