Writing Quotes · Page 569

Twitter is the best art for writers. I find it enticing.

— Nathan Englander

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

— Xavier Atencio

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

— P. L. Travers

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

— R. L. Stine

“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.”

— Paul Hoffman

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

— John Mayall

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled…

— Craig Kilborn

I'm really fortunate that my husband is a freelance writer and does the cooking, the shopping, takes the kids to school and…

— Cathy Newman

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get…

— Michael Tolkin

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is…

— Rita Mae Brown

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from…

— Louis Sachar

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is…

— Havelock Ellis

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the…

— Washed Out

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like…

— Stephen King

Max [Landis] writes in quite a heightened way, specifically for Dirk. There's a rhythm and a specific speed to it, and it…

— Samuel Barnett

When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it…

— Richard Yates

I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked…

— Kate DiCamillo

It is strange indeed how as a reader you never question the authenticity of an article being well aware that its passages…

— Mohd Aariff Khan

Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,…

— Robert J. Sawyer

As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity…

— Julie Connor

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged…

— Nora Ephron

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

— William Faulkner

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

— Andrew Eldritch

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

— David Mitchell

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

— Nelson Algren

Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.

— William C. Brown

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

— Stephen King

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

— Lance Bass

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

— Paula Danziger

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

— Verite

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

— Edward Abbey