Writing Quotes · Page 284

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.

— Jain

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

— Norton Juster

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

— Michael Chabon

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

— David Cage

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

— James A. Michener

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland…

— Sara Sheridan

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I…

— Brent Runyon

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a…

— Guy de Maupassant

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but…

— Paula Cole

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as…

— James Patterson

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's…

— Willow Smith

Because I'm a musician aspiring to write good stuff and put on good shows, I'm hyperaware of what they're doing and what…

— Sarah Harmer

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my…

— Tara Brach

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to…

— James Frey

“The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it…

— Terry Pratchett

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make…

— Alan Chadwick

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That…

— Amy Waldman

I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for…

— Caroline Shaw

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

— Justine Larbalestier

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

— Seth

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

— Amy Shearn

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

— Rumaan Alam

“Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.”

— Gary Corby

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

— Michel Houellebecq

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

— Ray Bradbury

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

— Clint Smith

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

“A good writer is a word fertilizer, a thought sanitizer...”

— Anonymous

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

— Henrik Ibsen

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

— Tori Amos

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.”

— Wendy Stanphill