Writing Quotes · Page 416

I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination.

— Arlo Parks

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

— Mason Cooley

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

— Pauley Perrette

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment”

— Dennis Lynds

My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.

— Jagapathi Babu

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”

— Tim Fargo

“I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong”

— Vicki M. Taylor

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth…

— Lynn Coady

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things…

— George Lucas

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak…

— Neil Gaiman

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire…

— Steve Jobs

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about…

— Garrison Keillor

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next.…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

— Bryan Magee

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like…

— John Scalzi

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to…

— Margaret Mead

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I…

— Cynthia Ozick

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,…

— Samuel Hynes

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know…

— Jonathan Swift

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be…

— George Orwell

Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a…

— Cassandra Clare

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

— Jesse Ball

We in the same picture But we all got different poses

— Lil Wayne

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

— Pierre Berton

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

“You can fix just about any problem in your writing, but you cannot revise a blank page.”

— Gabriela Pereira

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

— David Guterson

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

— Irwin Shaw

I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

— Stephen Chbosky

I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.

— David Thewlis

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike