Writing Quotes · Page 595

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

— Howard Rheingold

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

— Peter Heller

“The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

— Anthony Horowitz

“Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports.”

— Adam Gopnik

Three factors need to write: Inspiration, Motivation and Emotion. Let it flow from your soul and heart!

— Adrian Evans

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

— John McPhee

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography…

— Robert Dessaix

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all…

— Kareem Mortimer

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing…

— Rupert Sheldrake

You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and…

— George Ezra

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds…

— Steve Coogan

I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad…

— Lady Saw

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can…

— George Meyer

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and…

— Bob Odenkirk

“That awesome moment when I’m in my zone. Comp on, internet off, WhatsApp muted, Word doc open, muse connected, fingers racing, time…

— Tom Jalio

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing…

— Katherine Dunn

Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the…

— Norman MacCaig

“The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life…

— Glenn Meade

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for…

— William Gibson

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage.…

— Ian Mcewan

I just started to understand my craft, what I wanted to do as an artist. It's just a growing process. Figuring out…

— Young De

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

— Nora Roberts

Complete vulnerability is my constant goal in writing.

— Jelly Roll

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

— Ryan McGinley

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

— Amy Winehouse

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

— Dee Dee Ramone

“Even when I’m writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I’m looking into my own heart.”

— Kay Kenyon

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

— Richard Ford

“No one has yet tested the pencil To see how many words it can write”

— Xi Chuan

Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

— Erika M. Anderson

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

— Tibor Kalman

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

— Amy Tan

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

— Eyedea