Writing Quotes · Page 33

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

— Jonathan Franzen

I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need…

— Kameron Hurley

Killing Eve' was kind of the road for me as an art person, where you have this opportunity to work with so…

— Kim Bodnia

“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting…

— Michael D. Jackson

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important…

— Jesmyn Ward

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library…

— Jess Walter

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right…

— Ron Suskind

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least…

— Mark O'Donnell

I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They…

— Rodrigo Rey Rosa

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

— Rian Johnson

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

— Mao Zedong

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work…

— David B. Coe

“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of…

— Raymond Chandler

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

— Charles Lamb

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind.…

— Hilary Mantel

I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge.

— Emily Giffin

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

— Ann Patchett

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might…

— Maria Lenhart