Writing Quotes · Page 313

“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”

— Saul Bellow

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

— Elizabeth Bishop

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Is it possible to write a reverent novel," said Nassrin, "and to have it be good?...”

— Azar Nafisi

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

— Victoria Justice

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

— Ginnetta Correli

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

— Mohsin Hamid

After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of…

— Mike McCready

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument…

— Saul Bellow

My father, Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry but he did not want me, or my younger…

— Tinnu Anand

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the…

— Nora Roberts

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

— Max Lucado

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car.…

— Dorianne Laux

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get…

— Dave East

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I…

— Aesha K Shah

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he…

— John Gardner

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the…

— Ted Rall

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country…

— Tracy K. Smith

I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and…

— Mark Twain

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or…

— Patrick O'Brian

“One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.”

— Bill Bryson

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

— Janet Evanovich

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

— Sam Hunt

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Everything has been said already. But it hasn't been said the way you'd say it. So go ahead. WRITE.”

— Ksenia Anske

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

— Tiffany Darwish

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

— Harlan Ellison

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too.

— W. Earl Brown

“My writing is my real work. My job is merely the way by which I debase myself for money.”

— Giando Sigurani