Writing Quotes · Page 232

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

— Charles Murray

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.”

— Naomi Kinsman

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

— Anton Chekhov

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

— William Gibson

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into…

— Edward Abbey

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are…

— Julia Glass

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only…

— Lois Wyse

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

— Alice Hoffman

If you are genuinely writing to Time Out for financial advice I'd stop worrying about ending up horribly poor and just accept…

— Tom Rosenthal

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from…

— Trent Reznor

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

— Jim Lynch

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense…

— Bethany Cosentino

“The Bible says in Habakkuk 2:2, “Write the vision and make it plain.” The written goal is the breakfast of champions. You…

— Dave Ramsey

“This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability…

— Cal Newport

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable…

— Muriel Spark

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt…

— Stephen King

Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have…

— Georgette Heyer

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant…

— Ron Rash

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth…

— Anna Quindlen

“I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that…

— Dennis Sharpe

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

— Paul Haggis

“If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.”

— Hans Zimmer

GVQUsC Awesome blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Tenders

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

— Katherine Paterson

“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.”

— Don Roff

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

— Ray Bradbury

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

— Jonathan Lethem

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

— Sylvia Day

“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.”

— Shannon Alder

“I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.”

— Alan Dapre

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

— Aden Young

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

— Marilynne Robinson