Writing Quotes · Page 454

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

— Franz Kafka

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

— Casey Miller

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

— Troian Bellisario

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

— Jim Gaffigan

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

— Isabel Allende

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

— William Faulkner

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

— Allen Wier

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

— Janet Maslin

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half,…

— Sergio Leone

I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on…

— Anjelica Huston

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.”

— Veronika Carnaby

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry…

— Johnny Cash

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that…

— William Stafford

Someday, as an exercise, you might ask a writer to give himself the questions he wants to answer. If you really want…

— John Fante

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a…

— Ian Rankin

“Dear 2600: …So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me…

— Anonymous

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs…

— Will Self

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's…

— Clifford Stoll

“I’m 100% certain of the quality of story I’m writing until I finish the outline and actually begin to write. At this…

— Anonymous

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer…

— Elmore Leonard

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is…

— Michael Koryta

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of…

— Warren Leight

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

— William Shakespeare

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

— Edward Abbey

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

— N. K. Jemisin

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

— Thomas Paine

“The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.”

— Mark Bell

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

— Lance Bass

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

— Verite

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

— Paula Danziger