Writing Quotes · Page 513

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

“When the words demand attention, they must be delivered!”

— KC Rhoads

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

— Mary Roach

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

— Ryan Eggold

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

— Sylvia Plath

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

— James Gleick

“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.”

— Tyler Hojberg

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books…

— Rick Moody

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the…

— Jimmy Barnes

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

— Maeve Binchy

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and…

— A. S. Byatt

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric…

— Scott Yanow

“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not…

— William S. Wilson

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

— Mario Puzo

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be…

— Marilynne Robinson

You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for 'Pineapple Express', and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different…

— Craig Robinson

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen…

— E. L. Doctorow

I told them that I cannot lie when a writer asks me what's my feeling not doing the game. I said I…

— Dick Vitale

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers…

— Andrea Barrett

I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo…

— Katie Stelmanis

“It isn’t hard being a hack writer. Between Dying Earth II and Dying Earth IX, six standard years had passed relatively painlessly.…

— Dan Simmons

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then…

— Robert E. Howard

I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.

— Ruston Kelly

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

— Nancy Mitford

“It's not interesting stuff that they're making up and writing, and that's why they're going down.”

— Sarah Palin

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

— David Gemmell

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

— Oscar Wilde

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

— Anne Tyler

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

— Daniel Keys Moran

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

— J. K. Rowling

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

— Toni Morrison

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

— Stephen King

“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”

— Alan Watt

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

— Maurice Sendak