Writing Quotes · Page 1,058

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your…

— Mark O'Donnell

I am going to write a book the title shall be The Love of my Life is it alright if you are…

— Gabe De La O

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after…

— Graham Greene

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big…

— Lena Waithe

“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when…

— Bret Stephens

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I…

— Pat Conroy

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it…

— Ali Smith

“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator…

— John Piper

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.…

— Grace Paley

In terms of column writing, with the exception of one or two others, I am probably paid as well as you can…

— Giles Coren

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…

— David Foster Wallace

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and…

— Mick Jagger

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how…

— Robert Munsch

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store…

— N. Scott Momaday

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold onto…

— John Steinbeck

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I…

— David Bowie

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false…

— Marlon James

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is…

— William S. Burroughs

When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject…

— Ben Dolnick

I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories,…

— Arlo Parks

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So…

— Kim Shattuck

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

— Hilary Mantel

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and…

— Walter Benjamin

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels…

— Zooey Deschanel

The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm…

— Shooter Jennings

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and…

— Anant Agarwal

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my…

— Johann Johannsson

“It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most…

— Anonymous

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

— Andrew Pyper

“My advice to writers is this: Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn,…

— S. Alex Martin

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter.…

— Mickey Rooney

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

— Kate Thompson

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of…

— Ray Bradbury

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that…

— Tony Kushner

“i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker