Writing Quotes · Page 316

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

— Jose Saramago

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

— Sarah Manguso

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

— Adriana Trigiani

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

— Denis Johnson

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

— Taiye Selasi

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

— Dirk Benedict

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

— Marc Randolph

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the…

— Katherine Paterson

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time…

— Doris Lessing

“Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll…

— Tyler Hojberg

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders…

— Louise Penny

I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat…

— Dreezy

I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about…

— Linda Lael Miller

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff…

— Gene Ween

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes……

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You…

— Donald E. Westlake

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what…

— Sophy Burnham

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the…

— Anonymous

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the…

— Arundhati Roy

Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in…

— Maria Semple

Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock…

— Sarah Silverman

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of…

— Paul Wolfowitz

“The best thing about being a writer is the joy of creating a story that’s never been told before.”

— Rae

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

— Roman Coppola

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

— Austin O'Malley

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.”

— Thurman P. Banks Jr

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

— Candace Bushnell

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

— David Biespiel

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.”

— Lawrence Block

“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.”

— YKRaikou

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

— John Darnielle

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

— Joseph Conrad

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie