Writing Quotes · Page 492

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

— Arundhati Roy

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony

“Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

— Warren Cuccurullo

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

— Sophy Burnham

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

— Teddy Geiger

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

— Tucker Max

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo…

— Thalia Zedek

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun…

— Nick Frost

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

— Prunella Scales

I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody…

— Marina and the Diamonds

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it…

— Nicholas Sparks

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what…

— Will Leitch

“It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but…

— Katie Roiphe

“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an…

— Gilles Deleuze

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And…

— Dwayne Johnson

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level…

— Chris Baty

“Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their…

— James W. Pennebaker

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...…

— Anais Nin

The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if…

— Owen Pallett

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's…

— Constance Hale

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

— Anita Brookner

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

— Aharon Appelfeld

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

— Ted Hughes

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

— Paul Haggis

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

— Nancy Kress

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

— Dave Barry

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

— Yoko Ono

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

— Eric Bogosian

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

— Wallis Simpson

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

— Norman Mailer

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

— Flannery O'Connor

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

— Larry the Cable Guy

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

— Beck