Writing Quotes · Page 326

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

“Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!”

— Avijeet Das

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

— Alexandra Daddario

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.

— Dean Lewis

“Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.”

— Kevis Hendrickson

One of the most fun things for me, as a writer, is when readers ask questions like, 'Oh, I noticed that you…

— Celeste Ng

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a…

— Anne Enright

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value?…

— Jenny Zhang

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the…

— Lydia Davis

I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and…

— Robert Eggers

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet…

— Terry Pratchett

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to…

— Suzy Menkes

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive…

— Jack Kerouac

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…

— Isaac D'Israeli

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we…

— John Irving

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

— Tori Amos

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

— Norman Cousins

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

— Christina Baldwin

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

— Lord Byron

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

— Trevor Rabin

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

— Andy Summers

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...”

— Elizabeth Peters

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea