Writing Quotes · Page 70

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

— John Green

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one…

— Sophie Kinsella

“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and…

— Seraphina Donavan

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

— Mark Alan Stamaty

“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family,…

— Cherise Wolas

While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional…

— Sarah Weinman

When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a…

— Chris Thomas King

My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

— Eric Kripke

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know…

— Alice Mattison

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

— Joe Eszterhas

I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate…

— Mary Tyler Moore

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

— T.C. Boyle

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the…

— Anne Lamott

“Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There…

— Annie Dillard

“In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And…

— Bertolt Brecht

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.”

— Jarod Kintz

“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

— Eugenio Montale

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

— Jesmyn Ward

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”

— J.G. Ballard

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design…

— Robert Bringhurst

When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was…

— Vince Flynn

I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real…

— Pamela Adlon

“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

— Nell Freudenberger

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

— Anurag Kashyap

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

— Irwin Shaw

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV…

— Tim Bray

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Inside" Children Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these…

— Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK

“I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it’s…

— William Trevor

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry…

— John Steinbeck