Writing Quotes · Page 478

I write music I like to write and that I'm comfortable with.

— Eddie Rabbitt

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

— Joyce Maynard

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

— Matt Duffer

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

— Vince Gilligan

“Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

“That’s the problem with writers – it’s impossible for us to forget the lovers we still have romance novels written inside of…

— Christina Hart

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write…

— Ernest Hemingway

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

— Victoria Woodhull

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

— Beth Henley

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

— Lee Child

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at…

— Sharon Olds

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal…

— Lewis Carroll

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the…

— John F. Kennedy

“But I will admit, that most of my life has been with the thought of the reaper pacing behind me. I know…

— Jamie Freveletti

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say,…

— Amy Bloom

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically…

— William Gibson

I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of…

— K. M. Soehnlein

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."…

— Natalie Goldberg

How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the…

— Rush Limbaugh

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

— Bill Haley

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

— Junot Diaz

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

— Rosario Castellanos

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“trace me, then write things where your fingers stop”

— ehddah

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

— Mika

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

— Henry Petroski

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

“The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman”

— Lisa Barr

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock