Writing Quotes · Page 4

Write. Publish. Repeat.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“I write to awaken.”

— Becca Menon

“Keep calm and write on!”

— Jessica Kinney

I don't write songs.

— John Corbett

All writing is dreaming

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write about my life.

— George Michael

I write, but I also act.

— Eric Bogosian

Writer speaks a stench.

— Franz Kafka

I hate commas in the wrong places.

— Walt Whitman

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

— Doris Lessing

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

— Eugenio Montale

It's the writing that teaches you.

— Isaac Asimov

Writing is a form of mischief.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

— Nikki Grimes

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

— Ted Solotaroff

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

— George Pelecanos

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”

— Neeraj Singhvi

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

— Nicky Jam

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

— Mary H.K. Choi

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer…

— Albert Camus

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be…

— Edward Abbey

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had…

— Joe Wright

“Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us,…

— Eugie Foster

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the…

— Thomas Hauser

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to…

— Frank Herbert

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

— Octavia Spencer

Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one…

— Clement Greenberg

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I…

— Juliet Marillier

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art…

— Vito Acconci

“Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful…

— Sonnia Kemmer

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever…

— Nicholas Sparks

“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing…

— Julio Cortázar