Writing Quotes · Page 401

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

— Erik Naggum

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

— John Selden

I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.

— Molly Shannon

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

— Anne McCaffrey

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

— David Bryan

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

— Steve Harris

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when…

— Kaskade

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of…

— Brian K. Vaughan

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber…

— Elvis Costello

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and…

— William Saroyan

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the…

— Alan Moore

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things…

— Minnie Driver

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into…

— Terry Pratchett

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any transition sentences. Then…

— Erik Larson

'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was…

— Rick Riordan

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing…

— Joan Aiken

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you…

— Adam Grant

In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about…

— Mike Bartlett

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,…

— William S. Burroughs

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war…

— John F. Kennedy

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

“Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.”

— Will Hindmarch

The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.

— Giles Coren

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

I become a very different person when Im writing music. I have zero anxiety when Im doing it.

— Renee Rapp

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

— Anthony Doerr

“stories can be hard to find when you go looking for one, rather then letting one find you.”

— Aric Davis

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

— John Steinbeck

“The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue”

— Cornelia Funke

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect

— Anais Nin

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

— Paul Theroux

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple