Writing Quotes · Page 543

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

— Flannery O'Connor

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

— Ziad Doueiri

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

— Mary Ruefle

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

— Sally Phillips

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

— Nora Roberts

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

— Ishmael Reed

“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.”

— Stephen King

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large…

— Augustus William Hare

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the…

— David Bryan

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going…

— Matt Bellamy

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you…

— Ed Sheeran

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have…

— M.F. Moonzajer

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I…

— Michaela Coel

Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the…

— Edward Topsell

I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're…

— Jason Mraz

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged…

— John Ruskin

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to…

— George Orwell

Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists…

— Frederick Lenz

I like things that are contradictory or seem one way but are another way. I think it's more genuine. It's the way…

— Memory Tapes

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if…

— V. S. Naipaul

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total…

— Nigel Kneale

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised…

— Samuel Johnson

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

— Emily Barton

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

— Bruce Boxleitner

Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.

— Seymour Hersh

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

— David B. Coe

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

— Zeenat Aman

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

— David Sedaris

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

— Tina Fey

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

— Brian Eno

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

— John le Carre

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

— Dani Shapiro

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

— Barry Mann

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin