Writing Quotes · Page 299

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

— Terence Winter

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

— Tony Hillerman

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

— J.A. Konrath

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect

— Anais Nin

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

— Paul Theroux

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying,…

— Brian Setzer

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the…

— Sue Townsend

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try…

— Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might…

— Karen Russell

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if…

— Philip K. Dick

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that…

— Farley Mowat

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a…

— Mary Roach

So what do they do? They start writing articles in the New York Daily News. Boy, that's a paper that loves to…

— Gary Null

“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear.…

— Anneli Rufus

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I…

— Mary Roach

George V. Higgins's 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1970) added an extra literary layer to the con novel; James Crumley's 'The Last…

— Sarah Weinman

I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small…

— Sjon

“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than…

— Heather Sellers

If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial…

— Desmond Tutu

There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,…

— Alberto Moravia

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

— Michael Pollan

“Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”

— Coco J. Ginger

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

“The purpose of life is to see,” the writer Jack Turner”

— Terry Tempest Williams

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

— Violante Placido

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

— Jason Lee

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

— James Thurber

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”

— John J. Winters

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar