Writing Quotes · Page 395

“Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.”

— Sharen Song

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

— Alicia Keys

“When I write my only difficulty is to be able to stop”

— MBarreto Condado

I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

— Darren Fletcher

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

Whirlpool often stuck for ideas, you do not write the quote, you wanted to write

— Mak_786

“Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.”

— Joël Dicker

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

— Franny Armstrong

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

— Peter Matthiessen

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a…

— Dennis Green

“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on…

— Storm Princeholm

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

— Sara Paretsky

“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to…

— Mark Twain

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of…

— Kenny Loggins

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

— Sherman Alexie

My father, Norman Mailer, expected a lot from us and he really pushed us and you know one of his favorite lines…

— John Buffalo Mailer

You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -…

— Ryan Ross

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that…

— John Updike

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside,…

— Tim Cahill

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand…

— Jo Nesbo

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer…

— Rajneesh

What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares…

— James Harbord

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

— Wallace Shawn

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

— Linda Daly

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

— David Bryan

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

— Penn Jillette

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

— Michael Ian Black

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

— robert m drake

“...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

Writing ''etc'' on an test because you don't remember any more examples.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

— Jim Rash

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

— Sam Neill

The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'

— Jenna Blum

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

— Neil Postman