Writing Quotes · Page 1,580

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I…

— Kim Smith

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be,…

— Dirk Benedict

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has…

— Bryan Fuller

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

You filled the void they been missing or help fit where they belong. Helped 'em up when the hope was gone,lent a…

— Raghib Clitso

One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left…

— David Auburn

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's…

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

“How can I demonstrate [...] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh…

— CK Webb

“If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great…

— John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters

One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.

— Ranvir Shorey

It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive,…

— Elaine Equi

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own…

— George Washington

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

— Donald Hall

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

— Brian Tracy

I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's…

— Rich Fulcher

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

“I have had great enlightenment from the writings of St. John of the Cross. When I was between seventeen and eighteen, they…

— John Beevers

I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right…

— Billy Wilder

“To write truthfully you must live, and you must feel what you are living.”

— Arturo Barea

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Golden Heart finalist in the prestigious RWA writing contest. Finalist in the International Digital Awards Semi-finalist in the Best Indie Books of…

— E. Ayers

“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm…

— Paulo Coelho

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

— Anne Lamott

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of…

— Steven Wilson

When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

— Clive Cussler

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then…

— Dinaw Mengestu