Writing Quotes · Page 282

For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.”

— Saru Singhal

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

— Carlene Carter

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

— Jean Webster

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I…

— Matt Haig

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

— Patricia Briggs

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“We’re the ones writing this story. We’re in charge of how it ends. And I fucking love you enough to rewrite it…

— Bronwyn Green

“That's being yourself. Chasing wherever inspiration goes, even if it's radically different from the thing that people know you as.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

— Samoa Joe

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now…

— James Blake

“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially…

— Carlo Rotella

Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.'…

— Justin Bieber

“Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make…

— Michael Korda

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God…

— Michael Jackson

“Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and…

— Robert Browning

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,…

— David Sedaris

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the…

— Bruce Springsteen

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

— Carlton Cuse

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

— David Bowie

“Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again! ”

— Dee Marie

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

— Charles Churchill

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

— Iris Dement

“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.”

— Rebecca Makkai

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

— Mick Ronson

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

— Ben Domenech

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

— Sadako Sasaki

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

— Nick Hornby

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot