Writing Quotes · Page 446

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

— Janette Turner Hospital

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

— David Duchovny

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

— Susan Fowler

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

— Jenna Bush

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the…

— Daphne du Maurier

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be…

— Denise Mina

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

— Donna Tartt

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps…

— Gavin Friday

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in…

— Jules Feiffer

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like…

— Dawn French

I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a…

— Stanley Kunitz

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and…

— Junot Diaz

When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine…

— Wayne Dyer

I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent…

— Matt Smith

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the…

— Melissa Leo

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It…

— Brian Tracy

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about…

— Laurie Anderson

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

— Michael Brandt

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

— Rory Bremner

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

— Megan Abbott

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

— Jason Mraz

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

— Anonymous

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

— Wallace Stegner

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.”

— Sarah Gerdes

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

— Nick Tosches

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

— Joan Armatrading

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier