Writing Quotes · Page 527

Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.

— Kat Von D

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

— Elmore Leonard

“I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don’t you?” - author Mark Merlis”

— Mark Merlis

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

— Brander Matthews

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

— Lewis Carroll

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite…

— William Gibson

“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release…

— Shannon L. Alder

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when…

— Del Shannon

“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all…

— Aaron T Knight

I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any…

— Tabu

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle…

— Chath Piersath

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more…

— Susan Sontag

“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked…

— Gillian Flynn

A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use…

— W. H. Auden

For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to…

— Lucy Corin

My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were…

— Edwidge Danticat

Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is…

— Donald Trump

The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be…

— Jill Magid

Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about…

— Jodi Picoult

Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction.…

— Elissa Schappell

“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I…

— Angela Thirkell

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

— James Richardson

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

“The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers!”

— C.S. Dixon

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

— Jack Woodford

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

— Pell James

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

— Anonymous

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm