Writing Quotes · Page 396

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

— Jeet Thayil

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

— Edward Hirsch

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

— P. D. James

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

— Patricia Garfield

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

— Thelma Ritter

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

— Andy Rooney

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

— Bonnie Hammer

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the…

— Catherine Fisher

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my…

— Rene Char

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

— Edward Hirsch

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -…

— David Bowie

“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up…

— Simon Armitage

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a…

— Jorma Kaukonen

There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than…

— Murray Bookchin

They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if…

— Tod Goldberg

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of…

— Graham Joyce

I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced…

— Dar Williams

I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before…

— Gary Giddins

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,…

— Douglas Coupland

“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered…

— Alice Walker

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

— T. E. Hulme

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

— Florence King

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman

— Luke McLuke

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

— Armistead Maupin

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

— Nicholas Sparks

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

— Marge Piercy

“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.”

— Dodong Charing

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

— Ada Leverson

“The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination.”

— Tim Campbell

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

— Jean Giraudoux

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous