Writing Quotes · Page 352

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

— Cameron Conaway

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

— Anonymous

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

— Asne Seierstad

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

— E. B. White

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

— Frank Peretti

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or…

— Robert Greene

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project;…

— Brian Chesky

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people…

— Rebecca West

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

— John Boyne

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it…

— J. G. Ballard

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

— William Gibson

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I…

— Damian Barr

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped…

— Lauren Myracle

“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense … But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think…

— Georgette Heyer

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many…

— Hilary Mantel

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.…

— Ayn Rand

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than…

— Richard Russo

“Television completes the cycle of the human sensorium. With the omnipresent ear and the moving eye, we have abolished writing, the specialized…

— Marshall McLuhan

“ NEXT LIFE . My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of…

— Vivian Swift

Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if…

— Linda Woolverton

“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

— Lord Byron

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

— Herman Melville

I discovered, to my surprise, that writing for live television made me a faster writer.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The way the writing on your hand wears off only in the spot that he held it.

— Myself

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

— Stephen King

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

— Charlie Brooker

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

— Mary Garden

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war,

— Kevin Powers

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

— Paul Bowles

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

— Eddie Huang

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

— Dawn French

“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”

— Saul Bellow