Writing Quotes · Page 431

Sometimes I sit down and write, but I can write in my head line by line.

— Kodie Shane

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

— Anonymous

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

— Kristen Bell

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

— Sherwood Anderson

“If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!”

— Junnita Jackson

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I…

— Amanda Hocking

I like to write lyrics when I feel it, and because of that, I like to keep a log of lyrics all…

— Alissa White-Gluz

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would…

— Ray Bradbury

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're…

— Charles Ghigna

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are…

— Dee Rees

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the…

— Charles Stross

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the…

— Sara Sheridan

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to…

— Chris de Burgh

That's the way I came up, writing and recording at home. I developed by playing everything myself. I was a drummer first…

— Pete Yorn

People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory…

— Ron Currie Jr

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly…

— Jack Kerouac

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There…

— Ken Liu

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing…

— Stevie Wonder

Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went…

— Granger Smith

But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor…

— Julian Barnes

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

— W. Somerset Maugham

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

— Glenn Close

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James

I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.

— Jackie Torrence

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

“All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.”

— Chris Colfer

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

— William Shakespeare

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

— Lois Wyse

“I love to write fun, flirty romances that make you smile.”

— Louise Rose-Innes

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

— Andy Warhol