Writing Quotes · Page 220

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

— Pierre Berton

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

— Kim Harrison

When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.

— Elliott Colla

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

— Michael Arndt

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

— Diane Johnson

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

— Enoch Powell

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

— Gulzar

“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.”

— Robin Sacredfire

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say…

— Eudora Welty

Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone…

— Kathleen Edwards

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work…

— Walter Jon Williams

“(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.”

— Sean O'Faolain

Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to…

— Edmund White

“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and…

— E.M. Forster

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to…

— Jason Silva

There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a…

— Scott Snyder

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other…

— Bonnie McKee

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my…

— Nicola Griffith

“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the…

— Ron Dakron

I don't know what's coming down the pike in 'Gotham.' Part of me goes, 'Man, I just wish I could be in…

— Donal Logue

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said…

— George Eliot

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the…

— William Shakespeare

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

— Jacob Weisberg

“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”

— robert m drake

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

Walking is central to my relaxation because when I'm writing I'm stationary for seven hours at a time.

— David Starkey

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

— Josh Billings

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

— Rudyard Kipling

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

— Susan Sontag

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.

— Visionist

“The adventurer became the storyteller...and then the Sentinel of the Sea.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

— E. M. Forster

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

— Lynn Nottage

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

— Tom Waits

I began writing 'Outlander' in 1988, so the Internet as we now know it didn't exist.

— Diana Gabaldon