Writing Quotes · Page 179

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

— Beverly Cleary

“A dysfunctional family makes for great writing -”

— Angela Rose

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

— Jay Griffiths

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

— Paul Engle

“The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

— W. H. Auden

Im singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

— Cheryl Hayashi

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn

“I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.”

— Roxane Gay

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

— John Irving

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write…

— Erica Jong

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even…

— Pharoahe Monch

I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, 'That's absurd; my heart is in this…

— Joss Whedon

I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got…

— Hannibal Buress

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

— Jean Giono

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

— Brendan Behan

Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that…

— Donald E. Westlake

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing,…

— Alain de Botton

Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker … [I]t does seem, dear, that this…

— Shirley Jackson

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When…

— Russell Freedman

That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident…

— Laurence Sterne

“You know I didn't start writing books until after I left Søren. I could barely get out of bed that first month.…

— Tiffany Reisz

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the…

— Gail Carson Levine

I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because…

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote…this is actually…

— Wednesday 13

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought…

— Matthew Ramsey

You write about what you know.

— Larry David

I am a storyteller by trade.

— Lynn Nottage

“The writing in itself is transformative for me.”

— H Raven Rose

I like to think of myself as a storyteller,

— Kate DiCamillo

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

— Denis Johnson

can only write about what bites you.

— Tom Stoppard

“Everything I write is a rebound.”

— Stuart Stutzman

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley