Writing Quotes · Page 267

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination”

— Eudora Welty

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

— Jason Reynolds

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

— Miguel Ferrer

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or…

— Sherman Alexie

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

— Jan Karon

“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for…

— Chila Woychik

Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it…

— Rebecca Miller

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of…

— Aimee Bender

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly…

— Marti Noxon

“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of…

— Rougeau a Benedictine Monk

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin were the biggest inspirations for my work because they trod into areas considered to be…

— Laeta Kalogridis

The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence…

— Clarence Manion

I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job…

— Dave Barry

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream…

— Missy Elliott

“Dreams that last hold secrets from the past. Out of reach. Impossible to breach. Fragile to clutch. Fleeting to touch. Like stars…

— JoDee Neathery

Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It…

— Megan Abbott

Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings…

— Celeste Ng

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

— Chinua Achebe

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

— Rod Serling

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”

— John Patrick Lowrie

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

— Panos Cosmatos

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

— Andre Previn

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

— Edward Abbey

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

— Molly Shannon

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

— Alan Bennett

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

— Gail Sher

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

— LP

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

— Andy Cohen

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

— Corey Haim