Writing Quotes · Page 354

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

— Tiffany Darwish

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Everything has been said already. But it hasn't been said the way you'd say it. So go ahead. WRITE.”

— Ksenia Anske

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”

— David Joseph Cribbin

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

— Quintilian

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you…

— Dustin Diamond

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much…

— Steven Knight

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind -…

— St. Lucia

“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides.”

— Ann Patchett

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of…

— Nicole Krauss

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to…

— Victoria Chang

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can…

— Anonymous

I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential…

— Lisa Loomer

“Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being…

— Steven Pressfield

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That…

— Toby Young

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should…

— Anonymous

I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers.…

— Sherman Alexie

“I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge…

— Guy Kawasaki

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is…

— Sonya Hartnett

As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will,…

— Marques Houston

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

— Stephen Sondheim

“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.”

— Scott Tracey

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

— Zadie Smith

If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too.

— W. Earl Brown

“My writing is my real work. My job is merely the way by which I debase myself for money.”

— Giando Sigurani

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

— Jan Neruda

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

— Anonymous

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

— Sonia Sanchez

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

— Roald Dahl

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

— George Whitefield

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. John Le Carre

— John Le Carre

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.

— Graham Linehan

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray