Writing Quotes · Page 477

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

— Aparna Sen

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

— Nina Simone

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

— William Zinsser

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

— Sri Chinmoy

Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.

— Chad Harbach

“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.”

— Bonnie Huie

“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”

— William S. Wilson

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're…

— Jackie Collins

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent…

— Diablo Cody

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected…

— Yip Harburg

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing…

— Cheri Bustos

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done,…

— Naomi Klein

“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing…

— R.M. Engelhardt

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy.…

— R. L. Stine

“I opened a writing app and began typing what I knew about Pierce. Vain . Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other…

— Ilona Andrews

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part…

— Gunter Grass

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I…

— James Frey

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact…

— Marissa Nadler

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have…

— Lisa Morton

“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and…

— Anne Jamison

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

— Gautham Menon

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

— Norman Lear

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

— will.i.am

“While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.”

— Anonymous

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

— George Perez

“I think I'm very complex. That's why I'm still writing after all of these years :)”

— Milena Gomez

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

“Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!”

— Deeba Salim Irfan

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

— Andrea Arnold

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

“Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.”

— Rick Springfield

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

— J. K. Rowling

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

— J. K. Rowling

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

— Joan Didion

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

— Ben Schott