Writing Quotes · Page 482

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

— Randall Jarrell

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

— Jeff Kinney

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

— Eyedea

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I had this knack of writing opening lines to my tunes. This helped in making an instant impression.

— Anu Malik

“I'm not an aspiring writer; I'm a writer aspiring to be read.”

— D.L. Marriott

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

“No one has yet tested the pencil To see how many words it can write”

— Xi Chuan

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than…

— Julia Cameron

“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.”

— Isaac Marion

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.”

— Django Wylie

Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can…

— Christian Dior

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work,…

— Sriram Raghavan

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,…

— Blaise Cendrars

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't…

— Frank Zappa

I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People…

— Kris Allen

I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer,…

— Lauren Iungerich

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a…

— William Strunk Jr

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters.…

— Steve Carell

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see…

— Rachel Joyce

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I…

— Julianna Baggott

I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in…

— Rita Dove

“Why a raven?" "To honor my father." "The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Dar Vorona. Gift…

— Ilona Andrews

“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil…

— Eudora Welty

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

— Richard Ford

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

— Erika M. Anderson

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

— Amy Tan

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

— Amy Winehouse

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

— Ryan McGinley

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

— Dee Dee Ramone

“Even when I’m writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I’m looking into my own heart.”

— Kay Kenyon

Three factors need to write: Inspiration, Motivation and Emotion. Let it flow from your soul and heart!

— Adrian Evans

“Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.”

— Adam Gopnik

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

— Peter Heller

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

— Anthony Horowitz

“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

— Howard Rheingold