Writing Quotes · Page 242

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

— Lorene Scafaria

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

— Robert McKee

“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

— Joe Craig

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

— robert m drake

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

— Anthony Marais

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires

— Todd Barry

“There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You…

— Kate Inglis

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd…

— Taylor Swift

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the…

— James Fenton

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

— Gail Carriger

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to…

— Martin Amis

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person…

— Rachel Bloom

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market…

— Anthony Minghella

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It’s every man for himself,” he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he’d been laid off…

— Jeffrey Ford

“Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and…

— Elizabeth Berg

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.…

— Philip Pullman

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find…

— Adam Johnson

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began…

— Carl Sandburg

Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is…

— Gena Showalter

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would…

— Michael Koryta

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

— Raymond E. Feist

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

— Anonymous

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

— Patrick Stump

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

— Michael Connelly

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

— Al Alvarez

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

— Matthea Harvey

I voted for you, and you couldn't even write me back.

— Aubrey

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

— Jonathan Raban

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

— John Philip Sousa

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.

— Marlon James

Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.

— Sally Rooney