Writing Quotes · Page 72

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

— R. A. Salvatore

“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a…

— Natalie Goldberg

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader…

— Christopher Bollen

Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they…

— John Waters

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

— Dean Koontz

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to…

— Alice Munro

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

— Miranda Lambert

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have…

— Greta Gerwig

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if…

— George Saunders

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much…

— Hilaire Belloc

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics…

— Bruno Mars

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

— R. Kelly

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

— Matthew Specktor

I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't…

— Shonda Rhimes

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

— Djuna Barnes

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like…

— George C. Wolfe

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up,…

— Jon Foreman

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me…

— El DeBarge

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to…

— Amy Hempel

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint…

— Ayelet Waldman

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are…

— Arthur Ransome

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

— Ivan Bunin

“Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.”

— Aminah Iman

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and…

— Jessie James Decker

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great…

— Neil Gaiman

“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

— Beverley Nichols

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

— James Arthur

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's…

— Allison Schroeder

In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision.…

— Margot Livesey

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

— Scott Westerfeld

“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least…

— Sara Sheridan

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I…

— Henry Miller

“When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all.…

— Mark O'Brien

“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said.…

— Walter Mosley