Writing Quotes · Page 427

“Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.”

— Vijay Kedia

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

— Chelsea Cain

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

— Robert Bly

“I am proof positive that wolves write doggie-style...”

— Arnold Wolf

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

— Isaac

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

— Mohsin Hamid

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

— Nizar Qabbani

Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone.

— Zoya Akhtar

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

— Amy Pascal

I can write a song, but can't un-right my wrongs. I guess you live and learn, learn when the love is gone.

— Anonymous

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during…

— Jeff Abbott

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out…

— Roddy Doyle

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar…

— Kina Grannis

Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with…

— Jonathan Weeks

“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.”

— Pat Pattison

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out…

— Willie Nelson

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been…

— Jens Lekman

“10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that. Write when you don’t…

— Brian Clark

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own…

— Edward Albee

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts…

— Douglas Kennedy

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a…

— Lorin Stein

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that…

— Charles Bukowski

There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

— Peg Bracken

“A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

“To say we know a person is to write that person off.”

— Yiyun Li

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”

— John Piper

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

— Ray Bradbury

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart