Writing Quotes · Page 455

Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.

— William C. Brown

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

— Nelson Algren

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

— Stephen King

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.”

— Paul Hoffman

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among…

— Robert Caro

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read…

— Denise Mina

“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t…

— Joanna Rakoff

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,…

— Sandra Cisneros

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and…

— Andrew Davies

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

— Colson Whitehead

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily…

— John Banville

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

— Marianne Wiggins

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it…

— Matthew Quick

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not…

— Haruki Murakami

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind,…

— Eddie Adams

Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind.…

— Sasha Cagen

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access.…

— Laura van den Berg

If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's…

— Anonymous

“Writers are tough sons-of-bitches. It’s hard enough to write a book. Then you have to wade into this street fight we call…

— Michael Schmicker

As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's…

— Jon Lovett

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

— Nathan Englander

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

— P. L. Travers

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

— Xavier Atencio

“The one, who write is more matured than the one, who read.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

— Will Self

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

— Andrew Eldritch

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

— William Faulkner

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

— John Mayall

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

It's brilliant there are so many writer-performers around.

— Daisy May Cooper

“There are more writers who read than readers who write.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

— Bob Schieffer