Writing Quotes · Page 255

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

— Robert Morgan

“Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.”

— John Gardner

“Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after”

— Janet Fitch

“yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams”

— john j geddes

“Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.”

— Bernard Jan

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

— Anonymous

Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.

— Frederick Barthelme

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

— Sara Genn

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really…

— Dan Chaon

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up…

— Kristen Schaal

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on…

— Clancy Martin

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws.…

— David Bezmozgis

I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career…

— Lucy Dacus

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go…

— Ben Fountain

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's…

— Buchi Emecheta

A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript…

— Noam Chomsky

“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world…

— Charles Lambert

I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's…

— G-Eazy

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the…

— Tina Fey

“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to…

— Foz Meadows

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and…

— Lucy Dacus

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

— William Styron

Writing opera off as intrinsically elitist is absurd.

— Roger Allam

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

— Lauren Conrad

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

— John Wesley Harding

“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.”

— Edmund Alexander Sims

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

— David Eddings

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

— Karl Kraus

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

— Margaret Wise Brown

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

— Catie Curtis

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

— Phil Vischer

“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

— Betsy Lerner

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

— Rod Serling

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

— Fumito Ueda

The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.

— Charles de Lint

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson