Writing Quotes · Page 230

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

— Charles Stross

“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”

— The Script

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

— Rumi

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

— John Mortimer

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

— Richard Bach

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an…

— Lorde

Quite honestly, most people are quick to "write someone off." But our God is a God of the second chance. Learn from…

— Woodrow M. Kroll

For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't…

— Joe Budden

“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books…

— Harry M. Caudill

The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and…

— Jenny Han

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to…

— Petra Nemcova

“Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It…

— Marcel Benabou

The reason why I'm just 'Cage' in Lucha Underground instead of 'Brian Cage' is because DJ, the writer, Chris DeJoseph, we wanted…

— Brian Cage

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all…

— Anonymous

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their…

— John F. Kennedy

“Magic happens when the wand of language strikes a stone and makes it melt, touches a spindle and turns it into gold,…

— Maria Tatar

“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing…

— Guy Pratt

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,…

— Guy Davenport

When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we…

— Jon Ronson

I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would…

— Neal Gabler

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.”

— Heidi Pitlor

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

— Patti Smith

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

— John Edgar Wideman

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

— Max Winkler

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

— Max Schneider

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

— Thomston

“Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

— James Joyce

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

— Elizabeth Berg

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

— Gail Porter

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

— George R. R. Martin

“I'm not as good a writer as some, but I'm not bad as most either.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“knowing now that the job of writing was as much about removing words as adding them,”

— Paul Auster