Writing Quotes · Page 42

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

— Sarah Lacy

“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take…

— Roald Dahl

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like…

— Dawn French

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

— Tana French

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

— Willa Cather

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there…

— John Irving

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first…

— George R. R. Martin

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if…

— Maurice Sendak

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always…

— Jodi Picoult

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her…

— L.M. Montgomery

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're…

— Ayelet Waldman

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost…

— John Cheever

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

— Tom Waits

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

— Dave Barry

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of…

— Donald A. Norman

Those who have followed my writing know that I don't think Wendy Davis has a very good chance of being elected governor…

— Harry Enten

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way…

— Eric Bana

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no…

— David Whyte

It gives me a great pleasure to see my reader's reaction to whatever I write.. I can be a great writer... My…

— Aireen Pontillo

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco