Writing Quotes · Page 312

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

— Lord Byron

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

— Stephen King

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

— Herman Melville

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The way the writing on your hand wears off only in the spot that he held it.

— Myself

I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and…

— William Shenstone

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

— Amitava Kumar

“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and…

— John Green

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is…

— Jessica Valenti

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only…

— Sarah Dessen

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading…

— Guy Johnson

I got Cs in English at school. I hated it. But now I want to be a writer and I'm voracious for…

— John Densmore

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

— Jessica Chastain

“The death of self of which the great writers speak is no violent act. It is merely the joining of the great…

— Annie Dillard

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap…

— Scott Adams

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut…

— David Bowie

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers…

— Clayton Christensen

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV,…

— Augusten Burroughs

“[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so…

— Umberto Eco

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How…

— Andrew Bird

“A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as…

— Evan Grinde

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

— Eddie Huang

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

— Paul Bowles

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

— Charlie Brooker

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

— Mary Garden

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,

— Kevin Powers

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

— John Steinbeck

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

— Chris Hardwick

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

— Don Roff

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

— Hafez

It's okay to be a bad writer if you have something to say.

— Bill Stott

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

— Barry Bonds

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

— Dawn French