Writing Quotes · Page 487

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

— Marian Keyes

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

— Harry Connick, Jr

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

— Matthew J. Kirby

Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's…

— Annika Sorenstam

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them.…

— Jason Robert Brown

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate,…

— Timothy Hutton

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to…

— Marcel Proust

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce…

— Gustave Flaubert

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

— Mark Rubinstein

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add…

— Jackson Browne

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that…

— Josh Duhamel

I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that…

— Grace Paley

People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b)…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

All the things you are liking in 'Breathe', the credit goes to the director and writer. As far as I am concerned,…

— Amit Sadh

There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation.…

— John Dos Passos

When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had…

— Guy Kawasaki

It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages…

— Rainbow Rowell

“I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what…

— Philip Pullman

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When people ask what you do, tell them you're a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.

— Janet Evanovich

“If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.”

— Ted Atoka

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

— Johnathon Schaech

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

— Lawrence Kasdan

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“I try to spend as much time writing about new worlds as I do reading and watching them.”

— C.E. Wilson

If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.

— Rod Serling

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”

— M. Kirin

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

— Isaac Marion

“When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.”

— Sonia Rumzi

“‎I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison”

— Jim Harrison