Writing Quotes · Page 213

“I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.”

— R. YS Perez

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.

— Sandra Brown

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

— Dave Ramsey

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

— Christine McVie

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

— Margaret Laurence

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

— Anonymous

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from…

— Franz Kafka

I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an…

— Terry Tempest Williams

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.…

— David Guterson

“You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace…

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're…

— Vince Gill

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't…

— Paul F. Tompkins

“There are only three truths. That which can be known. That which can never be known. The third, which concerns the writer…

— Miguel Syjuco

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look…

— Lucas Neff

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an…

— Megan Chance

I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in…

— Jim Harrison

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at…

— Seamus Heaney

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but…

— David Gerrold

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how…

— Grace Paley

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

“It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the…

— Blake Nelson

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,

— T. E. Lawrence

“Everybody dies. Some die still waiting for inspiration.”

— Christina Escamilla

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

— Arijit Singh

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

— Marguerite Young

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

— John Rzeznik

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

— Abigail Breslin

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

— Jeannette Walls

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel