Writing Quotes · Page 579

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

“Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.”

— Sidney Zion

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

— Jason Isbell

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

“I write because I have a meaningful message to deliver, not a book to sell.”

— Ramona Matta

“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

— Thomas Ken

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. Eeyore

— Eeyore

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I…

— Maia Mitchell

I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can…

— Rick Springfield

“I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.”

— Jenny Trout

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists.…

— Paul Simon

Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's…

— Charles Best

The writers' room is an open forum where anything mad or weird that aggressively shakes up the show can be suggested and…

— Jesse Armstrong

Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing…

— Barbara Crampton

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or…

— Bienvenido Lumbera

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my…

— Anne Roiphe

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in…

— Eri Nelson

For one, the nonverbal aspects of music are the most important to me. Then, whatever sort of emotion the music carries, intrinsically,…

— Luke Temple

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort…

— Xavier Rudd

I'd write you a letter, but I just feel you'd miss the word experience.

— Analeigh Tipton

“I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.”

— Chila Woychik

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

— Henry David Thoreau

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

— Hannibal Buress

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

— Janet Evanovich

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

— Gustave Flaubert

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

— Judith Guest

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

— Roland Barthes

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

— John Ciardi

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

— Kathleen Madigan

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

— Anna Quindlen

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

— Lin Biao

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

— A. J. Liebling

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

— Carl Reiner