Writing Quotes · Page 76

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

— Carson McCullers

“Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.”

— Alok Mishra

“Written words can also sing.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“ Membaca dan menulis membuatmu menjadi.”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

— Damien Chazelle

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

“In writing, Truth is more important than Beauty.”

— G.K. Hayes

“For what’s a writer without longing?”

— Eric Arvin

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

— Jacqueline Woodson

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

— Claire Messud

Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.

— Travis Beacham

“A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something”

— John Gardner

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

— Kevin DeYoung

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

'Human Target' was probably one of the best projects I ever worked on - that and 'Dr.Thirteen.' I just appreciated how smart…

— Cliff Chiang

“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope…

— Grace Paley

“Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door…

— Christy Hall

“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.”

— Shauna Niequist

“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.”

— Christopher Bram

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

— Adam Grant

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

— Ben Doller

“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't…

— Bob Proctor

The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just…

— Aaron Sorkin

She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that…

— Edward Hirsch

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some…

— Richard Ford

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do…

— Dorothy Allison

Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our…

— Alex Lifeson

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the…

— Northrop Frye

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.

— Gail Simone

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

— Iris Johansen

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

— PJ Harvey

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

All writers are propagandists.

— Derrick Jensen

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

— Christine McVie

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

— John Rhys-Davies

“A cliche is a cliche because it works”

— Feige Gornish