Writing Quotes · Page 233

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

— Jeph Jacques

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

— Martin Fowler

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

— Antonia Fraser

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

— Jean Little

“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing”

— David Halberstam

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

— Harlan Coben

“[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.”

— Edward Abbey

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,…

— Natalie Goldberg

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an…

— Brian Selznick

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that…

— Robert Benchley

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do…

— John Corey Whaley

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

— Byron Katie

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I think about Rilke , who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer I believe…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Kay Cannon was a woman I’d known from the Chicago improv world. A beautiful, strong midwestern gal who had played lots of…

— Tina Fey

“marked Never write with pencil, m’ija. It is for those who would erase. Make your mark proud and open, Brave, beauty folded…

— Carmen Tafolla

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all,…

— Joe Simon

When I was writing my first book, 'In Harm's Way,' I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I…

— Doug Stanton

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already…

— Spike Jonze

“First and foremost, [Writing] reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We…

— Ray Bradbury

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

— Eugene Ionesco

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

— Anonymous

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

— Lauren Groff

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

— Jarvis Cocker

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

— James A. Michener

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

— Emily Gould

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

— Leon Uris

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

— Rebecca Serle

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

— John Grisham

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

— Paul Watson

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

— Anonymous

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

— Glen Keane

“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

— Anonymous

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

— Jackie Evancho