Writing Quotes · Page 567

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

— Emeli Sande

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

— Sara Gruen

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

— Karl Rove

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

— Finn Andrews

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

— Vachel Lindsay

Writing a comedy track is an art. It isn't as easy as people think. It can make or break a film.

— Vivek

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far

— Claude C. Hopkins

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I…

— Lucinda Williams

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve.…

— Patti Smith

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got…

— Henry Watson Fowler

The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up…

— Ian Wooldridge

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

— James Richardson

I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and…

— Sam McCandless

“A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who…

— Mickey Spillane

The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who…

— Walter Millis

“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book,…

— E. Nesbit

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel…

— Sarah Waters

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power…

— M. F. K. Fisher

The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them.…

— Scott Westerfeld

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what…

— Oscar Wilde

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast…

— Jill Davis

“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense…

— Flannery O'Connor

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

— Barry Gibb

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

— Robert Kiyosaki

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

— Yance Ford

I love to grab my thoughts and write it down before I loose it !!

— Glen Rambharack

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

— Shirley Knight

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

— Laeta Kalogridis

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

— Peter Davison

No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.

— Stewart O'Nan

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

— Diablo Cody

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.”

— Aleksandr Voinov