Writing Quotes · Page 210

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

— Kit Reed

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

— Dennis Ritchie

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

— Don DeLillo

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

— Jens Lekman

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

— Aimee Bender

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

— Douglas Wilson

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”

— Andrew Barger

“On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses. I kept on walking.”

— Peter James West

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the…

— Mary Lee Settle

I'm an actor, and it is not for me but for the writer to offer the best role to me. For me,…

— Barun Sobti

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the…

— Oscar Wilde

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

“In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are…

— Jacob Mandel

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of…

— Napoleon Hill

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of…

— Ann Voskamp

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

— Nikki Giovanni

“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a…

— Molly Peacock

With my friends, it was always essentially true stories. That's how I always felt about doing King-Cat. This is something that really…

— John Porcellino

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm…

— Arthur Hailey

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they…

— Rachel Cusk

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,…

— Stephen King

“No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and…

— Thomas Ligotti

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,…

— Carol Windley

“A brick could be used to separate two types of people. On the left is a guy who loves my writing, and…

— Jarod Kintz

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

When writing the story of your life...don't let anyone hold the pen for you

— Mercy Pheona

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

— Adele

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

— Joseph Brodsky

“See the world anew and write down the bones of it.”

— A. D. Sams

I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.

— Celine Sciamma

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

— Gordon Lightfoot

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

— Donna Tartt

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

— Salma Hayek

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

— Elizabeth George

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

— Susannah Cahalan