Writing Quotes · Page 589

You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

— Garrison Keillor

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

— Amit Kalantri

Stop it boy, Do not come and argue wit men. Im sick like Writer, So you can come and honor my Pen.

— JR Writer

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

— Charlie Brooker

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

— Richard Paul Evans

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

— Jeff VanderMeer

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create…

— Natalie Goldberg

When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a…

— Steven Pressfield

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.”

— Liz Newman

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential…

— Gretchen Rubin

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind…

— Thomas Merton

There's innocence in a young mind, say 18 or 21, writing a script. But we have to acknowledge that they have to…

— Amala Akkineni

The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all…

— Hilma Wolitzer

“Some of the 'new woman' writers will someday start and idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other…

— Bram Stoker

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,…

— Anthony Bourdain

I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence…

— Tim Robbins

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss…

— Stacy Schiff

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's…

— Grace Paley

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

— James J. Corbett

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

— Terry Pratchett

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

— Havelock Ellis

“The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

— Ken Macrorie

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

— Stephen King

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

— PJ Harvey

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

— John Searles

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”

— E.B. White

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

— Oscar Wilde

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

— Richard North Patterson

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

— Mario Vargas Llosa