Writing Quotes · Page 274

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

— Amanda Knox

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

— Norman Mailer

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

— Kesha

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple,…

— H. L. Mencken

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very…

— Peter Turchi

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I…

— Michael Cera

'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a…

— Rick Ross

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it…

— Marisha Pessl

“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something…

— Jamie Ford

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:…

— William Trevor

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the…

— Jim Gaffigan

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like…

— Salman Rushdie

“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers,…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running…

— Amanda Palmer

There is a lot of management going on with directing. Maybe that was the biggest surprise-just the amount of tending that I…

— Charlie Kaufman

Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of…

— Maggie Nelson

“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or…

— Karl Wiggins

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means…

— Gary Oldman

“But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story,…

— Ian McEwan

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

— Emily Giffin

“If I want to reach your heart with my writing, I must truthfully reach into my heart while writing.”

— Peter Arpesella

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of…

— Misha Collins

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

— Ken Follett

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

— Jeff Giles

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

— Frances Farenthold

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

— Stuart Sherman

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

— Joss Whedon

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I like to write to decompress - that's very satisfying to me.

— Alisyn Camerota

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

— Mark Twain

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams