Writing Quotes · Page 525

“I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?”

— Shannon Lynette

“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”

— R.D. Larson

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

— Stephen McCauley

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

— John Cleese

“Your worry days are over. You're a writer. Worry on paper.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

— Richard Flanagan

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

— Iain Lawrence

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't…

— Laura Lippman

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great…

— Ernest Hemingway

I've always been interested in writing prose. I doubt anything will come of that, but I like the idea of creating things…

— Alex G

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -…

— Carol Windley

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing…

— Neil Gaiman

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters…

— Mary Pipher

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I…

— David Mamet

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after…

— Rick Riordan

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.…

— Joan Didion

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments…

— Richie Sambora

Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes…

— Jamaica Kincaid

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

— James M. Barrie

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us”

— Stephen Chbosky

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

— Erica Jong

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

— Farrah Abraham

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”

— Mo

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

— Jack Whitehall

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

— Tim Cahill

“The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page”

— Gregory Orr

I wish my book of life had been written in pencil...there are a few pages I'd like to erase

— Julie Hernandez

“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir