Writing Quotes · Page 406

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

— Rebecca Serle

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song…

— Fefe Dobson

TV is a writer's medium, the writer is in charge effectively. So what you write is what gets shot, so in that…

— Steven Knight

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are…

— Chris Abani

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not…

— Chuck Klosterman

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

— Khaled Hosseini

A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two…

— Paul Auster

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their…

— Nancy Pelosi

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and…

— George Saunders

“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions…

— Jen Besemer

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's…

— Donald Miller

That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on…

— Norma Fox Mazer

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

— Alice Mattison

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

— Tom King

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

— Albert Einstein

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

— Marilynne Robinson

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

— Isaac Asimov

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

— Edward P. Jones

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,

— P. W. Singer

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

— Meg Rosoff

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

— Tim Heidecker

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.

— Sharon Needles