Writing Quotes · Page 533

“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”

— David Burr Gerrard

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”

— RaeBeth McGee

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

— James Acaster

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

— William Cowper

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

— David Guterson

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of…

— Linn Ullmann

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I…

— Imelda May

“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.

— Natalie Prass

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply…

— George Orwell

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always…

— Francisco Goldman

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and…

— Leslie Fiedler

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

— Anonymous

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is…

— George Orwell

Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to…

— Lauren Graham

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program…

— Rebecca Serle

I've said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the…

— Paul Ryan

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the…

— Louis L'Amour

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read…

— James Patterson

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to…

— Jason Katims

I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like…

— Stephen King

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

— Damien Chazelle

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

“worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).”

— Mike Schmoker

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

— Matthew Specktor

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

— Henrik Ibsen

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

— Neil Gaiman

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart.”

— Charles A. Cornell