Writing Quotes · Page 386

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

— Judith Viorst

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

— George Orwell

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

— Alex Gibney

“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”

— Jonathan Price

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

— Janet Flanner

“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.”

— Amit Kalantri

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

— Sue Thoele

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing…

— Janet Evanovich

When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog,…

— Taylor Momsen

I just write the stuff that comes out of me, and then after that, I try to get it made. But I…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on…

— Audre Lorde

Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the…

— Liz Rose

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

— Amitava Kumar

But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely…

— Galileo Galilei

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from…

— Khalid

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further…

— Jean Aitchison

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how…

— Brian K. Vaughan

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie…

— Samuel Richardson

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You…

— James Blunt

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be…

— Carolyn Chute

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and…

— Anonymous

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

— Howie Mandel

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck

“good writers know how to shift around their alphbet”

— Smrithi Eswar

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

— Robert Frost

I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.

— Weyes Blood

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

— John Updike

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

— Karthi

Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.

— Rachael Yamagata

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

— Elizabeth Bowen

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

— Diana Abu-Jaber

I need to go out and write and produce my own stuff and collaborate with other women.

— Charlotte Hope

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

— Marvin Bell

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

— Kate Tempest

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

— Nick Cave

“Luck is not fate. Believe it or not, it's largely an attitude.”

— Willis Turner