Writing Quotes · Page 359

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

— Margaret Atwood

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

“There are different kinds of talent. Maybe your talent is in interpretation. Maybe you're a stylist.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.”

— Habeeb Akande

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

— Anonymous

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes

That urge you get to write no one gives a shit on someones status.

— Becca

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog…

— Denise Mina

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that…

— Dave Itzkoff

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

— Anonymous

“Can't live without writing. Can't write without reading. Can't read without dreaming. Can't dream without living.”

— Ksenia Anske

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Unfortunately, Erica's talent was acting, his writing, and gauging by her superior smirk, she was a reader, too, and he an open…

— Eden Winters

“Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.”

— Diane Setterfield

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something…

— J. G. Ballard

I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a…

— Paul Rudnick

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the…

— Ira Glass

“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By…

— Wallace Stevens

There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale…

— Michael Stipe

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the…

— Anonymous

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

— Edgar Meyer

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano

Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

— Angela Sarafyan

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton

“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it”

— William Meikle

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

— Tina Fey

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

What's the best way to ensure a supply of good books in the future? Support up-and-coming writers now.

— Celeste Ng

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

Why do I always write about love when it seems like love has written me off?

— Anonymous

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

— Thomas Lennon

“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”

— Lettie Prell