Writing Quotes · Page 357

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

— Alexandra Daddario

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

“Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!”

— Avijeet Das

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and…

— Andrea Brown

The millions or billions of micro decisions that you're going to make, that's what will determine who you are as a writer,…

— George Saunders

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only…

— David Brin

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book.…

— Hugh Grant

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team…

— Andy Hertzfeld

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it…

— John Edgar Wideman

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a…

— Margaret Atwood

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most…

— Jack Herer

I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real…

— Pamela Adlon

If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take…

— Daniel Kaluuya

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use…

— Sefi Atta

My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm…

— Andy Grammer

“The more you write, the more you find your voice. I think with my earlier stuff, when I was dabbling, it definitely…

— Chessela Helm

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life,…

— Diana Wynne Jones

In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and…

— Susan Stinson

“Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of…

— James S.A. Corey

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

— Tori Amos

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

— Norman Cousins

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

I didn't really gig my way in. I was just in my bedroom writing songs for so long.

— Dean Lewis

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

— Christina Baldwin

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

— Virginia Woolf

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

— Lord Byron

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

— Trevor Rabin

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

— Mary Oliver

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

— Madi Diaz

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

I'm constantly writing songs to show people that it's okay to be a work in progress.

— Jelly Roll