Writing Quotes · Page 2,537

The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very…

— Francoise Sagan

“The prose,” Robespierre said. “It’s so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant…

— Hilary Mantel

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…

— Edmond Jabes

A lot of people may have written me off.

— Julius Randle

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

— Anonymous

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the…

— Jimmy Breslin

“Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman”

— Tracy Kauffman

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

— Emma Lazarus

Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in…

— Chelsea Cain

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears…

— Renee Dixon

Little else matters than to write good code.

— Karl Lehenbauer

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of…

— Nicholas Royle

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired…

— Donald Sutherland

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.…

— Richard Flanagan

I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening…

— Patrick Watson

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”

— Thomas M. Cirignano

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years…

— Erik Larson

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

— William S. Burroughs

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio