Writing Quotes · Page 530

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

— Monica Youn

“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

— Don Roff

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

— Donald Miller

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

— Alain de Botton

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

— Dave Attell

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

— Polly Adler

I've been living a healthier life and, therefore, writing healthier music.

— Tash Sultana

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...”

— Jd Young

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start…

— Kirby Larson

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.…

— Doris Lessing

“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”

— Amit Kalantri

I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do…

— David Lloyd

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person…

— Alex Chilton

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage…

— Rebecca West

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be…

— Lynne Tillman

I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all…

— Andy Wilkinson

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get…

— P. G. Wodehouse

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I…

— Akhil Sharma

“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they…

— Terri Windling

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write…

— Cassandra Clare

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

— Claire Tomalin

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

— Robyn Davidson

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

— Anonymous

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

Thank you ever so for you article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Cheap

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

— Dominic Holland

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

You are the author of your life, unfortunately you are writing in pen and cannot erase your mistakes

— Jerald Delacruz

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

— Nuruddin Farah