Writing Quotes · Page 514

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

— Earl King

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

— Elissa Schappell

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

— Nick Cave

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

— Chris Claremont

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my…

— Miranda Hart

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

— Danny Strong

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had…

— George Orwell

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be…

— Satyajit Ray

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I…

— Matt de la Pena

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product…

— Anonymous

“It seems altogether probable that we would live with far greater care if we realized that in living out our day we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I really like to do is to sit quietly and write. All that other stuff is a problem. Publication to reception…

— Mark Helprin

“I’ve enjoyed the comicbook writings of Warren Ellis since a friend introduced me to Transmetropolitan via the “holiday special” in collected volume…

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.…

— Lillian R. Melendez

It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the…

— Win Butler

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books.…

— J. K. Rowling

Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my…

— J. Michael Straczynski

People think, "Oh my god, you've been doing this job for so many years, it must get boring." It's like, "No, hell…

— Cassandra Peterson

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting…

— Scott Frank

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

— Carol Kane

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

— Marjorie Liu

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

— Daphne Guinness

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist”

— john j geddes

“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”

— Robert Galbraith

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

— James Salter

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

— Octavia Butler

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

— Steven Seagal

Trying to write new music is definitely daunting, but I try not to overthink it.

— Jonas Blue

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

— Ann Patchett

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

— Tobias Wolff

As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'

— Erik Larson