Writing Quotes · Page 576

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

— Jenna Blum

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

“I may be a shit writer,’ I remember him saying once, ‘but I’m richer than any of the good ones.”

— William Boyd

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

— Jo Walton

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

— Wilson Follett

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to…

— Gore Vidal

I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not.

— Cody Simpson

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next.…

— Harvey Pekar

“I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

— Dan Savage

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes…

— C. S. Forester

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on…

— Richard Rorty

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when…

— Carol Windley

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he…

— Aldous Huxley

“There are many self-proclaimed “screenwriting gurus”—though how you get to be a “guru” of something you’ve never actually done is beyond us.…

— Thomas Lennon

I'd had my whole life to write my first album. I had my No. 1 and my third single out, and they…

— Toby Keith

All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli…

— Etgar Keret

I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who…

— Janice Erlbaum

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;…

— Wallace Stegner

I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I…

— Helen Prejean

As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

— Kabir Khan

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

— Amy Winehouse

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

— Sarah Dessen

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

— Nicole Blackman

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

— Alan Bennett

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

— Robert Frost

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

— Alberto Moravia

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

“Never hurt writers. They may forgive you, but their pen never does.”

— J. Alchem

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

— Fred Schneider