Writing Quotes · Page 434

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

— Simon Van Booy

I'm writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.

— Leo Sayer

For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write.

— Elizabeth Berg

“I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.”

— Rayne Hall

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

— will.i.am

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

— George Michael

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality,…

— Anonymous

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is…

— Oscar Wilde

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to…

— Stephen King

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this…

— Camille Paglia

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me…

— Jeffrey Bernard

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining…

— Alastair Reynolds

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

— Anne Tyler

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians…

— Michael Showalter

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.…

— Milton Friedman

I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky…

— Renny Harlin

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I love writing about the military, as I live near an air force base and am inspired by the sacrifices our soldiers…

— Franny Armstrong

“Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one…

— David St. John

“Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud…

— Sol Luckman

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

— Maya Angelou

This is exactly what I was lokoing for. Thanks for writing!

— Anonymous

“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,”

— Khaled Hosseini

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

— Virginia Woolf

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

— Tennessee Williams

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

— Elizabeth Fraser

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

— Natalia Kills

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.”

— Tracy Cooper-Posey

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

— Lisa Stansfield

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!”

— Marja Meijers

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

— Robert Dessaix

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

— Gwen Stefani