Writing Quotes · Page 387

You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.

— J. K. Rowling

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

— David Mamet

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

— Nick Tosches

“I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart”

— john j geddes

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

You will not read voice on the page; you will hear it in your head.

— Philip Gerard

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write…

— Thomston

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours…

— Keith Miller

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it…

— Allison Janney

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in…

— John Varvatos

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at…

— Ernest Hemingway

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

— Tom Rachman

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has…

— Julie Klassen

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real…

— Erin Morgenstern

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.…

— Candace Bushnell

You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Our president has made historic progress toward equality. He repealed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' so that no American ever again has to…

— Tammy Baldwin

I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do.…

— Mat Kearney

“ Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might…

— Sigrid Nunez

When you are the avatar for the writer/director, a lot of times, I just trusted him. If he had a choice, even…

— Matt Bomer

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

— George R. R. Martin

“Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option.”

— Courtney Worth Young

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”

— Meagan Spooner

I am infamous for writing fight scenes beat for beat, punch for punch. I can't help it!

— Bryan Konietzko

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

— Frances Ridley Havergal

I've had to tell people that I'm not co-writing. I don't want to do it and that's that.

— Jade Bird

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

— Jasper Fforde

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

— Mattie Stepanek

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

— Shaun Ryder