Writing Quotes · Page 388

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

— Jeff VanderMeer

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

— Anonymous

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

— George Pelecanos

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.

— Kim Gordon

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

— Steven Pinker

“I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.”

— Shahla Khan

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable…

— Ayana Mathis

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work…

— Alex Garland

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a…

— Hilary Mantel

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women…

— Ella Purnell

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about…

— Michael Connelly

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t…

— Sacha Guitry

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short…

— Dia Mirza

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really…

— Khaled Hosseini

I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's…

— Rebecca Stead

“She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her…

— Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…

— Graham Swift

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a…

— Hope Davis

Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter…

— Jack Canfield

I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for…

— Tony Kushner

Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,…

— Thom S. Rainer

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that…

— Avi

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

— Garrison Keillor

I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

— Derek E. Miller

“I'm a writer. I write because I don't talk so good.”

— Lionel Fisher

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

“Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.”

— Lesley Choyce

Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.

— Mark Foster

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

— Erica Brown

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

— Robert Hass

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski