Writing Quotes · Page 78

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

— Gustave Flaubert

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

— Brittany Murphy

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

— Arthur Balfour

“The words come at my call but who calls whom?”

— Jeanette Winterson

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

— John Krasinski

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

— Aubrie Sellers

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

— Mick Foley

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

— Melanie Martinez

“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.”

— Andy Hollandbeck

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from…

— H. L. Mencken

A lot of times people who write sitcoms for the 18 to 49 crowd think writing for kids is easy. It really…

— Dan Schneider

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

— Jesse Ventura

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33…

— Alanis Morissette

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say,…

— Toby Keith

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find…

— Siri Hustvedt

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card…

— Julia Michaels

“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am…

— Richard Rhodes

Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell…

— Bun B

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing…

— Ruth Ozeki

“A note, who writes a note like that? Who were you to write one to me? it boomed inside me the whole…

— Daniel Handler

I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've…

— Kristen Bell

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text…

— Max Barry

“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,…

— Brenda Ueland

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

— Staness Jonekos

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

Let's give the historians something to write about

— Propertius

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

— David Ogilvy

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

— Lana Del Rey

“Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita