Writing Quotes · Page 424

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner…

— Wilbur Smith

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

— Jeff VanderMeer

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

— Samuel Eliot Morison

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

— John Milius

I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.

— Sudha Murty

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

— Roy Peter Clark

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means…

— Jason Schwartzman

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling…

— John Berger

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of…

— LeVar Burton

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in…

— Rachel Kushner

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or…

— Sara Sheridan

If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say…

— John Gardner

As a songwriter I take a lot of pride in my writing, and 'Things a Man Oughta Know' won ACM Song of…

— Lainey Wilson

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is…

— Gabrielle Roy

None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not…

— William S. Burroughs

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating…

— Alexander Cockburn

One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.…

— Philip K. Dick

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But…

— Tyler Joseph

I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have.…

— Orianthi

“I am, in large measure, the selfsame prose I write. I unroll myself in sentences and paragraphs, I punctuate myself. In my…

— Fernando Pessoa

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

— William Stafford

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

— Ernest Gaines

“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.”

— Arianna Huffington

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

— Jon Hamm

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

— Chris Cleave

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

— Siri Hustvedt

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

— Roald Dahl

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

— David Bezmozgis

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

— Virginia Woolf

Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.

— William Allingham

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

— Michael Koryta