Writing Quotes · Page 443

“Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.”

— Sarah Richards

If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

— Nick Hornby

“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

— Hisham Matar

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

— Chamfort

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

— Sandra Cisneros

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

— Isaac Asimov

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

— Amanda Abbington

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If…

— S. E. Hinton

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for…

— Anonymous

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

— Dan Fogelberg

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting…

— Joyce Maynard

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

“You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate…

— Brian Helgeland

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.…

— John Irving

I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so…

— George Saunders

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until…

— Fran Lebowitz

It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing…

— Sharon Van Etten

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of…

— Lawrence Wright

Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2…

— Nancy Grace

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity…

— Graham Nash

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

— Prince

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

I really started writing at the Groundlings. We all have to write all our own sketches and stuff.

— Edi Patterson

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

— Courtney Barnett

“Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.”

— Deyth Banger

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

— John Entwistle

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

— Rebecca Skloot

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

— Anonymous

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

— Susan Cain

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

— Paul Auster

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

— Diablo Cody

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I firmly believe every book was meant to be written.

— Marchette Chute

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

— Peter Morgan