Writing Quotes · Page 324

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

— Jules Renard

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

— Louise Erdrich

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

— Martin McDonagh

“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic…

— Kenneth Branagh

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday,…

— Demetri Martin

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like…

— Henry Mancini

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room. The great temptation is…

— Ron Carlson

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be…

— Mel Brooks

“I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even…

— Raymond Carver

The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in…

— Catherine Camus

“I write under not only the presumption that everything I write is deeply conditioned by everything I’ve already written, but that everything…

— Nam Le

“I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive.…

— Thomas Ligotti

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

— Claude C. Hopkins

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.”

— Lenore Appelhans

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

— Michael Patrick King

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

— Orson Welles

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

— Frank Murphy

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

— Matthea Harvey

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

— Denise Duhamel

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson