Writing Quotes · Page 447

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

— Jerry Spinelli

“My advice is to write during commercial breaks, and read while your favorite TV show is on mute.”

— Jarod Kintz

We all in the same picture but all got different poses.

— Lil Wayne

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

— Arnold Adoff

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

— Frankie Shaw

“Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn't.”

— CB Smith

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

— Colm Toibin

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

— Joshua Schachter

Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve…

— Sabrina Bryan

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and…

— Barry Levinson

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he…

— Manuel Puig

One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project…

— Jennifer Egan

I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to…

— Marilynne Robinson

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

— Annie Dillard

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on…

— Kurt Sutter

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing…

— Bell Hooks

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one…

— Douglas Coupland

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that…

— Aaron Sorkin

“Demian Farnworth, chief content writer at Copyblogger, defined it this way: A content strategy is “a plan for building an audience by…

— Meera Kothand

If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling…

— Larry Winget

All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption,…

— Tom Regan

Undisputed ends when I return to the WWE in 2007. There is already 3 ½ years of material including the 3 best…

— Chris Jericho

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

— Nancy Mairs

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

— Colin Mochrie

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

— Arlene Croce

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

— W. E. B. Griffin

I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.

— Meg Wolitzer

“As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.”

— Jarod Kintz

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

— Jean M. Auel

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

— Amos Oz

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi