Writing Quotes · Page 496

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

— Simon Kinberg

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

— Alfonso Cuaron

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

— George MacDonald

One must be ruthless with ones own writing or someone else will be.

— John Berryman

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

— George Arnold

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

— Kiran Desai

I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.

— Gail Simone

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just…

— Jessica Sorensen

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are…

— Kameron Hurley

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way…

— Philip Gerard

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and…

— Roxane Gay

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is…

— Nancy Werlin

Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against…

— Minae Mizumura

“Some people have a lot of time, but no money-- It's because they don't work hard enough. Some people have a lot…

— Bob Sharpe

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug…

— Mike Tyson

One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities or historic…

— Jason Johnson

Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people…

— Rosalie Maggio

I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're…

— Carolyn Chute

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is…

— Nick Laird

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

— David Baboulene

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.”

— Patrick Ness

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”

— Jay Taylor

“Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.”

— Ellie Ann

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

— Jane Smiley

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

— Enzo Amore

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

— Michael Connelly

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

— Emily Dickinson

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

— Carol Tavris

“What are you thinking about?" "Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater