Writing Quotes · Page 269

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

— Roland Barthes

“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.”

— DENNIS SEDDON

I think of myself as a storyteller, more so than an actress.

— Naomi Ackie

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

— Jay Duplass

“I began writing about power because I had so little.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

— Jane Yolen

Corporate career is like my wife, and writing is my girlfriend. My priority is the first but enjoy doing the second, as…

— Ravi Subramanian

“You need to love the villain as much as you need to love the hero if you’re going to have a great…

— Andrew Scott

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I…

— Brie Larson

Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'

— Brian Azzarello

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't…

— Jarryd James

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because…

— Betty Smith

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or…

— Anna Leonowens

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers…

— Victor Levin

As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write…

— Kanika Dhillon

Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most…

— Kate Beaton

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will…

— Henry Miller

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,…

— Jack White

I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure…

— Davis Schneiderman

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack

“When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all.…

— Mark O'Brien

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

— Carolyn Kizer

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

— James Van Allen

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”

— Cristina Istrati

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

— Elvis Presley

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

— Gail Honeyman

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

— Anonymous

I belong to a teachers' family and writing was my expression.

— Sudha Murty

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“No writer should be the same as another, that’s not art.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

— Celia Rivenbark

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

— Cory Doctorow