Writing Quotes · Page 366

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

— Elmore Leonard

“To write is to feel ... with your heart, your mind, and your soul.”

— Paula Baker

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

— Maya Angelou

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

— Carl Phillips

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

— Ken Baumann

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

— Drake

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.”

— Will Schwalbe

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having…

— James Russell Lowell

“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of…

— Eileen Granfors

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the…

— Lee Child

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

— Heston Blumenthal

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet…

— Louis L'Amour

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

— Seneca the Younger

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and…

— Athol Fugard

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

— Paris Hilton

I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and…

— Nick Jonas

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need…

— Yann Martel

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in…

— Charles M. Schulz

Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just…

— Max Bemis

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from…

— Paul Begala

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way…

— David Bowie

“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known?…

— Edith Wharton

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

— Matthew Stover

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

— Ruskin Bond

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

— Ryan North

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

In the marriage, dialogues and sounds of the woman are written and directed by the man.

— Vikrant Parsai

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.

— Lauren Weisberger

“...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...”

— John Geddes

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.

— Amit Ray

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Both writing and thinking, like children, require plenty of patience till growing up.

— Mariana Fulger

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

— Donald McKay

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna