Writing Quotes · Page 486

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

— Raymond Kethledge

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

— John Steinbeck

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

— Anne Tyler

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

— Gautham Menon

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You have to write about what keeps you up at night.”

— Judy Goldman

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

— Max Hastings

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the…

— Jon Weisman

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

— Roy Blount, Jr

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a…

— Harper Lee

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough…

— Lucinda Williams

“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story,…

— Karen Jones Gowen

I will always write for other people. I will always write for myself. I will always want to make money. I will…

— Becky Hill

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have…

— Suzanne Vega

“There is no end to writing, I think, no end to the project of rescue." --Sofia Samatar, from "Fallow," in her collection,…

— Sofia Samatar

In a serious relationship, I will definitely write music about a guy. I'm totally into mix tapes and I'm all about small…

— Aly Michalka

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if…

— Lena Dunham

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's…

— Calvin Trillin

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly…

— Jason Robert Brown

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely…

— George Bernard Shaw

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was…

— Jeff Kinney

Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that…

— Chang-Rae Lee

With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process…

— George Saunders

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

— Margaret Deland

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.”

— Stephen King

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

— John Cale

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

— Joss Whedon

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

— Michael Giacchino

“The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

All my favourite writers have come from humble beginnings.

— Lucy Beaumont

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

— Peter De Vries

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

— Helen Dunmore

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

— Vikram Seth

“after a miles time, writing leads me to write lines, this made forgot my past.. and made me new...”

— Will's

“Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.”

— Thornton Wilder

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

— Ernest Hemingway

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

— Nachman of Breslov