Writing Quotes · Page 305

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

— Jeanette Winterson

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

— Marge Piercy

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

— Nicholas Sparks

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

— Florence King

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

— Patricia Garfield

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

— T. E. Hulme

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier…

— Lena Andersson

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's…

— Timothy Simons

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied…

— Eric Brown

“Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous…

— Lauren DeStefano

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's…

— Halsey

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a…

— Amy Tan

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going…

— Chris Weitz

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have…

— E. Nesbit

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and…

— Adam Young

“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll…

— Tod Goldberg

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your…

— Ron Rash

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring…

— Christopher Vokes

I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same…

— Jesmyn Ward

If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time…

— Josh Gad

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman

— Luke McLuke

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

— Edward Hirsch

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

— P. D. James

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

— Bjork

“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.”

— Dennis Lehane

“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.”

— Kelvin Fowler

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

— Roger Bacon

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

— Sean O Faolain

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

— Joseph J. Ellis

“And so instead, when you write, I hope you fall in love.”

— R. YS Perez