Writing Quotes · Page 343

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

— Jenny Offill

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

— Hugh Lofting

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

— John Adams

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

— Tara Moss

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

— Lily King

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

— Alex Comfort

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they…

— Martin Amis

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for…

— Bonnie McKee

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I…

— Etgar Keret

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single…

— Giuseppe Bianco

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both…

— David Rakoff

It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,…

— Doris Lessing

When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people…

— Robin Sloan

On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last…

— James Parton

I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and…

— James Ellroy

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city —…

— Malcolm Cowley

Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early…

— Pete Docter

When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which…

— Charlie Kaufman

If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do…

— Brenda Ueland

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series…

— Daniel Handler

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

— Cole Porter

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

— Curt Schilling

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

— Lisel Mueller

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

— John Searles

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

— James Salter

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

— Louis Kronenberger

A house becomes a home when you can write, 'I love you' on the furniture.

— Rick Sutter

“Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.”

— Elizabeth M. Lawrence

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

— Peter De Vries

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

— Marvin Harris

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

— David M. Evans

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

— Anonymous

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to…

— Ann Patchett

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

— Gerald Brenan

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

— Rick Bragg