Writing Quotes · Page 432

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

— Cecelia Ahern

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

— Joss Whedon

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

— Sherman Alexie

I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.

— Mouni Roy

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

I've got all the discipline as an actress, but none whatsoever as a writer.

— Jean Marsh

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

— Eric Brown

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out…

— Ruth Glick

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

— Beatrix Potter

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really…

— Damien Rice

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this…

— Per Petterson

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much…

— Julio Cortazar

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever…

— Courtney Barnett

I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know…

— Joe Jonas

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or…

— Virginia Woolf

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as…

— Alex Tizon

The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be…

— Chuck Klosterman

According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me.…

— Mindy Kaling

“An author needs a lot more than one person to succumb to his literary seductive charms, but, like Saul, he must realize…

— Thomas McCormack

I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and…

— Black Thought

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

— Diane Mott Davidson

“It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.”

— Rhonda Fink-Whitman

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

— Rita Mae Brown

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

— Charles Krauthammer

“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.”

— Carla H. Krueger

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

There are a small list of directors and writers I would work with.

— Brenda Fricker

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

— Herta Muller

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

— Robin Hobb

“I am free to write what I want and my readers are free to think what they can”

— Marlowe Sr

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

— Frederick Busch

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“Words are the closest any of us can come to making something from nothing at all.”

— Danielle Ackley-McPhail

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado