Writing Quotes · Page 522

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

— Judy Blume

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

— Elfriede Jelinek

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

— Anonymous

“What comes out of a pure-hearted, fluently written by an open-minded.”

— Toba Beta

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

— Bill Konigsberg

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

— Peter Morgan

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

— Karen Russell

“Be expectant...God is not finished writing your story!”

— Joy Marino

“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,”…

— Ann Handley

When an editor first explained to me the difference between direct and indirect writing, I just thought it was a stylistic choice.

— Alice Mattison

I wrote out the lyrics that I would do at MAMA 4~5 days in advance. After I said that, Zico hyung told…

— Kim Nam-joon

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate…

— Tina Fey

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

— Amitava Kumar

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

— Maya Lin

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I…

— Lucinda Williams

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring…

— Philip Kitcher

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

— Dolly Parton

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending,…

— Drew Pinsky

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of…

— Chris Colfer

There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put…

— Alison Sudol

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we…

— Craig Finn

Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440…

— Ann Landers

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a…

— Ben Hecht

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

“As neanderthals, writing on the caves, I write as a way to behave”

— J. Michael Wahlgren

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

— William Cowper

Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won't give my TV show. I put it in my live show.

— Ron White

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.

— William Zinsser

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

— Andrew Motion

Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.

— Francois Ozon

“You can write a true story that never really happened.”

— Becky Aikman

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

— Neil Gaiman

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.”

— Midnight Taylor

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

— Jorja Smith

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

— Jan Karon

“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.”

— Amit Kalantri

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

— Amy Tan

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin