Writing Quotes · Page 338

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

— Susan Glaspell

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”

— Elinor Florence

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always…

— Ben Elton

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four…

— Stephenie Meyer

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is…

— Wendell Berry

I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or…

— Melissa Febos

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken…

— Arthur M. Jolly

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make…

— Suyog Ketkar

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

— Jane Austen

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of…

— Adam Levine

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.'…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to…

— Oliver Stone

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does.…

— Zal Batmanglij

The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six…

— Isabella Bird

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away,…

— Annie Dillard

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

— James Lipton

I want to sing something that I have written from scratch. How cool would that be.

— Jonita Gandhi

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

— Willie Nelson

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips