Writing Quotes · Page 577

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf

“Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon”

— Spike Milligan

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

— James A. Baldwin

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

— Ross Mathews

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly…

— Junot Diaz

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely…

— Chris Claremont

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh…

— Judy Blume

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love…

— Khaled Hosseini

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant…

— Terry Brooks

“Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. That is the experimental aspect. If you know where you…

— Brian Massumi

Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity…

— Jane Hirshfield

Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which…

— Joseph Addison

“The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to…

— Ingrid Betancourt

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and…

— Neil Gaiman

I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures…

— Warren Buffett

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

— Susan Faludi

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

— Billy Lawrence

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Writers write, therefore I'm a writer! Impossible itself says I'm possible.”

— Makayla Redmon

“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.”

— John Piper

“To say we know a person is to write that person off.”

— Yiyun Li

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

— Ray Bradbury

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells