Writing Quotes · Page 298

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

— Anne McCaffrey

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.”

— Daniel Sean Kaye

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

— Kurt Sutter

We write our own history each day. Let's make it amazing.

— Nishan Panwar

“Platform, simply put, is your visibility as an author.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

— Kurt Vonnegut

They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him,…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of…

— Ray Bradbury

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be…

— Arthur Miller

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

— Diane Setterfield

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in…

— Don DeLillo

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying…

— Joan Jett

When I set out to write, I see it very visually. I almost feel like a reporter. I'm relating what I'm seeing…

— Sandra Brown

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because…

— Anais Nin

One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering…

— Tina St. John

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,…

— Lewis Thomas

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm…

— Scott Derrickson

“Is that how it goes with writing? That as long as you are writing, no time is ever completely in the past?…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both…

— Lisa Lutz

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

— Anonymous

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

— Emily Saliers

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

— Emily Yoffe

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

— James Ivory

“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.”

— ChristaCarol Jones

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

— Peter Greenaway

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

“Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”

— Criss Jami

Thank you for your post.Much thanks again. Keep writing.

— Bookmarking

“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.”

— Martin Myers

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

— Gore Vidal

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

— Isak Dinesen