Writing Quotes · Page 349

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

— Lauren Conrad

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

— Adrien Brody

Beauty is not perfection; life is not without suffering; and a piece of writing can never be flawless.

— Melchor Lim

“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology”

— Stephenie Meyer

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

— Maya Angelou

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any…

— Sue Townsend

I'm a PAPER, u can write ur feelings, scribble ur anger, use me 2 absorb tears. Don't throw me after use but…

— Mukesh

“Write as much as you can. As fast as you can. Finish your shit. Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to…

— Chuck Wendig

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce…

— Teju Cole

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend…

— Diane Setterfield

“I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because…

— S. Elle Cameron

Throughout history, the only way of restoring stability is to write down the debts. That is treated now as if it's something…

— Michael Hudson

It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song…

— Georgia Nott

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my…

— Candace Bushnell

What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to…

— Doseone

“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I…

— Stephen King

For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner…

— Masha Gessen

Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to…

— Fran Lebowitz

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are…

— Wess Stafford

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in…

— Rick Gekoski

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

— Igor Stravinsky

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

— Anonymous

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

— Justin Sane

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

— Ryan Tedder

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

“Maybe we're not the most faithful heroes, but maybe at least we can describe them.”

— HAZEM ABDELMOWLA

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

— Amy Lee

How one supposed to grow if you're generating derogatory feelings?

— Raghib Clitso

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

— Larry Niven

I am a writer. Books are my home and words are my friends.

— Vikrant Parsai

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

— Jason Diamond

I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

— Kathy Najimy

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

— Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

— Patricia Hampl