Writing Quotes · Page 398

I write all different types of music, which can be a blessing and a curse.

— Eddie Rabbitt

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

— John Lanchester

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

— Mary Gaitskill

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

— Liz Brixius

I try to have a balanced diet. I try to write down everything that I eat.

— Kristen Welker

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting…

— Natalie Goldberg

“Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false…

— Christina Sunley

“[Carlos] Ruiz Zafon holds dear the belief that when you read a book, you take a holiday in the brain of the…

— Helen Pitts

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

— Michael Bierut

Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.

— Zoe Kazan

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

— Zazie Beetz

I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you…

— Molly Shannon

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with…

— Karl Kraus

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I…

— James M. Cain

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or…

— Virginia Woolf

“But we were chumps and we knew it. As makers of sentences we were practically fetal, beneath notice, unlaunched, fooling around in…

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.…

— Anna Quindlen

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By…

— Meghan Trainor

“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with…

— Mike Wallace

When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said,…

— Jack Driscoll

Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he…

— James Boswell

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

— Sue Townsend

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

— Nora Ephron

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe

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

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it.”

— Heather O'Neill

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

— Al Yankovic

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion