Writing Quotes · Page 426

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

— Judith Guest

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

— Roland Barthes

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I write because I have a meaningful message to deliver, not a book to sell.”

— Ramona Matta

“I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.”

— Chila Woychik

I'd write you a letter, but I just feel you'd miss the word experience.

— Analeigh Tipton

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to…

— David Steinberg

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for…

— Henry Rollins

“Writing is enormously satisfying, a little difficult at times, but rewarding, especially when someone really loves the book - that is the…

— A.H. Richardson

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit,…

— Rian Johnson

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

— A. A. Milne

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to…

— William S. Burroughs

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both…

— Stephen Hough

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.

— Annie Dillard

Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows,…

— Johnny Depp

I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've…

— Keak da Sneak

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for…

— Vijay Seshadri

I think scrin writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what,…

— Lisa Edelstein

The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot…

— Elliott Colla

“If the world is to have a future, it lies in the hands of women. At time of this writing nearly half…

— A.C. Grayling

I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

— Jason Isbell

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang

“Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.”

— Sidney Zion

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

— William Goldman

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three…

— Pandora Poikilos

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

— Sloan Wilson

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— Anonymous

Sometimes the writing leads to the revelations, not the other way around.

— Julia Glass

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

— Terrence McNally

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

— Nina Simone

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

— Walter Martin