Writing Quotes · Page 113

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm a better writer than a performer.

— Ivo Graham

I need to meet people to be able to write.

— Vikas Swarup

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

— Stanley Kunitz

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

— John Osborne

We are all writing God's poem.

— Anne Sexton

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.”

— Frances Mayes

“Sleep just gets in the way of the writing I want to do.”

— Celine Garcia

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

— George Earle Buckle

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

— Rod Lurie

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

— Robert Kirkman

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

— Rita Ora

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're…

— Dorothy Fields

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try…

— R. L. Stine

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were…

— Patrick Marber

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

— Ricky Jay

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a…

— Vikram Seth

As an artist, I write and I do what I know and what creatively comes out of me, and I think that…

— Salim Akil

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either…

— John D'Agata

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary…

— Rhianna Pratchett

I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I…

— Carmine Gallo

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is…

— Agatha Christie

“I still write so as not to feel alone in the world, but now I type. What is lost in the process…

— Cory Taylor

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All…

— Paul Auster

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a…

— Billy Collins

“What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." "What is your advice to older writers?" "If…

— Charles Bukowski

We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of…

— Roger E. Olson

“Only write a story that only you can write. ”

— Alysha Speer

I talk out the lines as I write them.

— Tennessee Williams

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

— Gao Xingjian

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

My interest in writing is not new.

— Richa Chadha

“Watching Youtube is not writing.”

— Larry Brown

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

— Chris Ware

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell