Writing Quotes · Page 257

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea…

— Rose Tremain

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it…

— Bill Mollison

I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing,…

— Kamal Haasan

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a…

— Neil Gaiman

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger…

— Brian Posehn

When I think I can do the best job by acting in someone's piece, I want to do that. And when I…

— Fred Hechinger

A typical day for me is I get up at 6:00, the coffeemaker goes on automatically and the computer gets turned on.…

— Kate DiCamillo

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so…

— Lillian Hellman

If you think your demeanor is mellow or not particularly charismatic, the material can life you higher. So write everyday, and get…

— Dane Cook

With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it,…

— Scott Spencer

“I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him.…

— Neil Gaiman

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for…

— Ethel Smyth

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly…

— Daniel Tammet

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen…

— Charles de Lint

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about…

— Anne Lamott

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

— Gore Vidal

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

— Sarah Kay

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

— Carol Kane

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

— Anne Frank

“Sometimes, all you have to do, is write something dow”

— Vivian Martin

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell