Writing Quotes · Page 469

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

— Mariah Carey

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

— Mark Gatiss

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

— Pam Shriver

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”

— Andy Merton

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I…

— Charles de Lint

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

— Victoria Jackson

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about…

— Jerry Harrison

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person…

— Lady Colin Campbell

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new…

— Orson Scott Card

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought…

— Edward Albee

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but…

— Jillian Medoff

A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America's leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the…

— Jim Goad

I started writing the song 'Lonely' in the Arndale food hall in Manchester when I was on my break from work. Anyone…

— CMAT

The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record…

— Douglas MacArthur

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is…

— David Maraniss

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -…

— Kate Atkinson

What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows…

— Philip Roth

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor…

— Tom Wolfe

I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew…

— David Leslie Johnson

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

— Taylor Goldsmith

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

— Shimon Peres

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

— Marianne Moore

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

— Diablo Cody

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

— Janeane Garofalo

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

— Richard Flanagan

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

— Ace Young

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

“In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

— Steven Moffat

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

— Thomas A. Edison

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette