Writing Quotes · Page 225

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

— Sara Shepard

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

I enjoy writing about what I and my fiance, Debina Bonnerjee, are up to in my blog.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

— Eddie the Eagle

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

— Raymond Carver

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

— Paulo Coelho

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know…

— Emily Yoffe

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

— Piers Anthony

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police…

— N. K. Jemisin

“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until…

— Phyllis Rose

I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do…

— Danny Strong

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love…

— Steven Rinella

“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create…

— Xiaolu Guo

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of…

— E.B. White

“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[The Great Gatsby] is a tour de force of revision. So much so that critics, who rarely mention the edit of a…

— Susan Bell

The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more…

— Daniel Olivas

There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be…

— Samuel Johnson

“God impresses His writers to speak to our needs, to tell us of sin when we need a message of judgment, and…

— Alden Thompson

Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers…

— Hisham Matar

If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have…

— Padgett Powell

There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.

— Fred Rodell

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

— Jack Kerouac

“I’m gonna write the most erotic, graphic, freakiest friend fiction ever.”

— Tina Belcher

“ I do write. I hope I do, to do and to always do. ”

— Bela Anĝelo

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

— Washington Irving

“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.”

— khaled Talib

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

— Cam'ron

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

— Anita Diament

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

— Omar Sharif

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

“At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.”

— Scott Cherney

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

— Iris Murdoch