Writing Quotes · Page 590

I'm writing a book called Stop Overreacting. If you guys don't buy it I'm going to kill myself.

— Nikhil Saluja

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.

— Philip Pullman

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

We like mature storytelling. We like dramatic storytelling. We like intense storytelling.

— Anthony Russo

I love writing with pen and paper; I hate technology.

— Zawe Ashton

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

— Shiloh Fernandez

I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

— Tom Clancy

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

— Christopher Darden

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I…

— Henry Miller

I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and…

— Brad Warner

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative…

— Edith Wharton

I would say that I am proud of my performance from Cracker and I think a lot of that was due to…

— Boti Bliss

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor…

— John Lescroart

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important…

— Michael Morpurgo

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write…

— Bob Weir

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for…

— Beth Hart

“So, reader, should you ever find yourself writing about the world, take care not to nibble at the many tempting symbols she…

— John Barth

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this…

— Huda Sharawi

“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems…

— Ian Gregor

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000…

— Richard Flanagan

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It…

— Porochista Khakpour

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have…

— Edward Albee

I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I…

— Vandana Singh

Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.

— Anonymous

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

— Scott Turow

“Writing is successful schizophrenia because I’m paid to hear voices in my head.”

— Jodi Picoult

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

— Catullus

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

— Irvine Welsh

“On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.”

— Richard Ford

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

— John Cheever

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

— Will Shetterly

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

— Wallace Stevens

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume