Writing Quotes · Page 332

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

— Steven Wright

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond”

— J.L. Bond

“A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.”

— Bryant McGill

The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really…

— Lena Dunham

“Nobody loses much if a person chooses to ignore acting or perhaps singing skills, but everyone in the society loses if a…

— Johnson C. Philip

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing…

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments…

— Edgard Varese

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

— Steve Jobs

For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world…

— Barbara Hamby

If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less…

— Mark-Anthony Turnage

Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the…

— Peter Selgin

As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but…

— George R. R. Martin

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which…

— Julian Barnes

“Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write…

— Courtney Hood

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as…

— Michael Hersch

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in…

— John Steinbeck

“When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.”

— Sonia Rumzi

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

— Jeon Yeo-been

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.

— John Caples

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.

— Adam F. Goldberg

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader ~ Robert Frost”

— Debbie Linger Chesnut

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

“Learn with your Mind, Love with your Heart, and Write with your Soul.”

— A. Willow Evans

“A writer must ask the tough questions. It’s the only way to get to the heart of the truth.”

— Tom Winton

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

— Anonymous

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

— Anonymous