Writing Quotes · Page 592

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

— Vanessa Marano

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

— Syd

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

— Toni Morrison

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All…

— Kathy Acker

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

— Michael Tolkin

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for…

— Christine McVie

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside…

— K.M. Weiland

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various…

— Jane Smiley

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording…

— Tom Scholz

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

— Orson Scott Card

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious…

— William Gibson

I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board…

— John Updike

One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very…

— Johnny Depp

“Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning "combustible" is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by…

— E.B. White

What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.…

— Nathan Englander

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --…

— Benjamin Franklin

The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine…

— George F. Richards

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the…

— Mary Baker Eddy

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

— Jack Dempsey

“If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”

— Tom Robbins

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

— Harold Nicolson

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

— Anonymous

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

— Lexi Alexander

“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.”

— Deva Arani

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

— Lev Grossman

I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.

— Denis Norden

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

— Richard Paul Evans

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

— Enzo Amore