Writing Quotes · Page 470

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

— Scott Turow

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.

— Anonymous

I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

— Tom Clancy

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

— Christopher Darden

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

— Shiloh Fernandez

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

— Irvine Welsh

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

— Catullus

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have…

— Flannery O'Connor

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone…

— Jason Mraz

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the…

— Alber Elbaz

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can…

— Wole Soyinka

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's…

— Mike Birbiglia

“When people charge in with great insistence that this is God’s word all the while neglecting the very real humanity of these…

— Rob Bell

“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed…

— Mary Cappello

When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as…

— Stephen King

I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it.…

— Ben Folds

Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws…

— Chris Christie

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is…

— Wilfred Grenfell

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely…

— Seth Godin

I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I…

— Bobby Knight

“On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.”

— Richard Ford

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

“Writing is successful schizophrenia because I’m paid to hear voices in my head.”

— Jodi Picoult

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

— Anthony Russo

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

— Philip Pullman

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

— Zawe Ashton

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”

— E.B. White

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

— Carlos Fuentes

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I'm writing a book called Stop Overreacting. If you guys don't buy it I'm going to kill myself.

— Nikhil Saluja

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

— Oscar Wilde

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

— Richard North Patterson

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

— Havelock Ellis