Writing Quotes · Page 330

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

— Gordon Lish

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

— Ron Franscell

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

— Stan Lee

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

— Joseph Conrad

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps…

— Wisława Szymborska

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and…

— Paul Bley

Writing songs has always been my first and foremost love, and, you know, whether I continue to have success as an artist…

— Thomas Rhett

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your…

— Timothy Morton

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

— Anton Chekhov

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,…

— Anne Rice

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it…

— Mark Twain

Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges,…

— Bruce Feiler

Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is…

— Jerry Schatzberg

“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. "Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their…

— Diane Setterfield

“I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to…

— Lionel Shriver

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster.…

— Mike Greenberg

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and…

— Kristin Hannah

Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off…

— Allison Moorer

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones…

— Bonnie Friedman

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

— John Steinbeck

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

— T. J. Miller

“Reading is the best medicine, writing is the best cure.”

— Ksenia Anske

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

— Alison Bechdel

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

— Stephen King

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

— Matt Drudge

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

— Ben Hecht

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

— Rumi