Writing Quotes · Page 300

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

— Al Yankovic

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it.”

— Heather O'Neill

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

— Nora Ephron

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm…

— Duncan Jones

The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying…

— Chris Claremont

Wonderful suimbt, very informative. I wonder why the opposite specialists of this sector do not understand this. You must proceed your writing.…

— Rita

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at…

— Chris Cleave

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as…

— Jeanette Winterson

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I…

— Katherine Paterson

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an…

— Lee Child

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems…

— Ted Kooser

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only…

— Sylvia Plath

You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just…

— Anne Lamott

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of…

— Michael Pollan

“From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I…

— Ray Bradbury

Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish…

— Tove Jansson

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

— Howard Jacobson

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

— Allison Williams

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

— Tony Hillerman

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

— Duncan Roy

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.

— Crystal Roby

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.”

— Jean Genet

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

— Brian Regan

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

— Thomas Carlyle

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

— Jodi Picoult