Writing Quotes · Page 510

“There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.”

— Tim Campbell

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

— Joe Scarborough

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

— Andrew Sean Greer

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

— Ernest Hemingway

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

— Christopher Darden

A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.

— Alice McDermott

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

— Jerry Stahl

“There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper”

— Rainbow Rowell

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich…

— Larry Brooks

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to…

— Jack Lemmon

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now,…

— Luis Fortuno

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who…

— Robert Creeley

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms…

— Rebecca Miller

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their…

— Walt Whitman

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I…

— Anton Chekhov

“Science journalism’s express goal was to hang over the writer’s mind a veil so opaque that the reader would mistake the writer’s…

— Amanda Gefter

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her…

— Rebecca Solnit

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote…

— David Duchovny

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they…

— Anonymous

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as…

— Evan Thomas

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm…

— Rick Perlstein

“What if a man could write everything that came into his mind. You could find there gems of wisdom, depth of utter…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get…

— Chuck Klosterman

“also make ongoing written notes about my life. As it turned out, this was”

— Cliff Harwin

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

— Jens Lekman

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

— Shania Twain

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.

— Amos Oz

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

— John Braine

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

— Terry McMillan

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

— Irwin Shaw

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

— DJ Khaled

“Before you can write, you have to be able to read.”

— D.M. Russ

“With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

“it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.”

— Kate Morton

“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.”

— robert m drake