Writing Quotes · Page 582

I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

— Lena Waithe

I think I developed a style of writing that was more, I guess, open for people to be able to interpret.

— Griff

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

— Lisa Jewell

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

— Sophie Hannah

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to…

— David Gelernter

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect…

— Meg Cabot

“if you start writing with no idea of an ending, you’ll produce the longest, and best story you’ve ever written.”

— Blowthecandlesoutt

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of…

— Jeanette Winterson

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you…

— Martin Amis

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst…

— Anonymous

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more…

— Haruki Murakami

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain.…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me…

— Donald Richie

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I…

— Barbara Hamby

As a freelancer, as a writer, and running my company, people have always tried to negotiate me down. Some might think that…

— Luvvie Ajayi

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight…

— Joe Mynhardt

Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single…

— John Lescroart

In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I…

— Elizabeth Berg

Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

— Orhan Pamuk

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

— Chris Rea

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

— David Simon

There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

— Matthew Reilly

“If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.”

— Darynda Jones

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

— John Hughes

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

— Voltaire

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

— Chet Williamson

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

— Oscar Wilde

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

Indulging in the inspiration that you have written within the words..

— Raghib Clitso

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

— A. S. Byatt

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

— Ann Voskamp

I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.

— Heather McHugh