Writing Quotes · Page 467

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

— Wayne Static

“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM”

— Alice Walker

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

— Greg Gutfeld

“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.”

— Tom Grimes

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

“Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.”

— Paul Raymond Martin

“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's…

— Paloma Faith

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

— Anne Waldman

Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.

— Bishop Briggs

“Writer and former Border Patrol officer Francisco Cantú has written poignantly about these death maps and all the “clearly marked ghosts” that…

— Valeria Luiselli

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really…

— Shawn Mendes

I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I'm really inspired right now by a lot of the actors and actresses who are pursuing storytelling outside of just acting. They're…

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get…

— Samuel Johnson

A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life…

— David Foster Wallace

“I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is…

— John Scalzi

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then…

— Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, I could write in Canada and still get the American benefits. But I wanted to come down here for…

— Kelly Oxford

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

— Hunter Hayes

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

— Tim O'Brien

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

— Richard Flanagan

Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.

— Tapani Bagge

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

“London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the”

— William Shakespeare

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

— Roy Ayers

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”

— CJ Roberts

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

— Stephen J. Cannell