Writing Quotes · Page 460

“Decolonising the Mind, by an important African writer and revolutionary, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.”

— Chinua Achebe

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

— Berkeley Breathed

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

— John Hersey

Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

— Anonymous

“Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you’re not willing to burn what doesn’t work.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

— Joshua Ferris

“But to wish oneself into another's glory, as boy or as man, is an impossibility, untenable on psychological grounds if you are…

— Philip Roth

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it…

— Jason Gann

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports,…

— Amish Tripathi

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

— Julia Cameron

“Perhaps, writing is like the taste of honey sucked from flowers in a garden, each tasting differently.”

— Anu Lal

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments…

— Joshua Reynolds

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk…

— John Grisham

“Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope…

— Margaret Maddocks

“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams,…

— Diane Setterfield

“You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win…

— Kathryn Le Veque

I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say…

— Noureen DeWulf

“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute…

— Stephen King

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of…

— Stephen King

I was approached by the writers of 'The Bridge,' and they were looking for a song that would go along with the…

— Ryan Bingham

“Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:”

— J.A. Pak

“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

— Marianne Moore

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird

— Erik Meyer

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

— Erica Jong

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

— Evangeline Lilly

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

— Anthony Minghella

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

— Emily Gould

“A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten”

— Cynthia Batten

I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that.

— Jody Hill

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

— Christopher Golden

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie