Writing Quotes · Page 228

When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think.

— Dawn O'Porter

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

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— Laptop Notebook

“Extremist sects in Islam cultivated cryptography to conceal their writings from the orthodox.”

— David Kahn

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Anonymous

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned…

— Stephen Sondheim

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on…

— Skrillex

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full…

— Natalie MacLean

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams…

— Ricky Martin

Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject…

— Annie Dillard

“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love…

— Jonathan Franzen

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold…

— Poul Anderson

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call…

— Salman Rushdie

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of…

— Jared Diamond

By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up.…

— Michael Ian Black

“It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't…

— Stephen King

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

— Iris Origo

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

— Elizabeth George

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

— Abi Morgan

“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.”

— robert m drake

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

— George Meyer

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

— Ishmael Reed

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.

— Oliver Stone

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

— Anonymous