Writing Quotes · Page 281

“When writing, aspire to sell your words by weight, not by volume.”

— Al Boudreau

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

— Yannis Philippakis

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

— Andrea Arnold

“The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.”

— Beverly Lowry

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

— Cynthia Ozick

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

— Dorothy Day

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

— Henry Rollins

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said…

— Lee Klein

“Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.”

— Chad B Hanson

“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice…

— Kim Stafford

What we shall be is written, and we are so. Headless of God or Evil,Pen, wrote on! By the first day all…

— Omar Khayyam

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the…

— May Sarton

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details…

— Richard Flanagan

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems…

— Jerry Spinelli

When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is…

— Rachel Hollis

“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one…

— Roman Payne

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I…

— Judy Blume

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary…

— James Lee Burke

You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have…

— Shane Black

When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or…

— Roxane Gay

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need…

— Paul Bloom

A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the…

— Danny Fox

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Ed Byrne

Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me

— Tupac Shakur

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

— Toni Morrison

“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”

— John Geddes

“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.”

— P.D. James

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

— Mike McCready

The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.

— Lisa Jewell

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

— Chris Priestley

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

— Tom Scharpling

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

— Eric Bogosian

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

— Joanna Newsom

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

— Sholom Aleichem

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

— Agatha Christie