Writing Quotes · Page 368

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

“Help me write us a new ending to the best story I've ever read.”

— Kirk Diedrich

“You used to be entertaining before you started to write.”

— f scoot fitzgerald

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

— Sofia Vergara

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

— Bobby McFerrin

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say…

— Angus Wilson

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last…

— Fred Savage

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine…

— Elie Wiesel

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now…

— Kate O'Mara

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in…

— Yann Martel

“It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in…

— Arthur Graham

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel…

— Slowthai

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time…

— Clint Black

To me, and I'm sure for other writers, too, characters come back and they relive again, but what about those characters who…

— Peter Orner

“Her religion--perhaps, Alwyn thought, American Christianity as a whole--was a religion of ideal prose; all the beauty it had was the elegance…

— Glenway Wescott

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer…

— Annie Dillard

My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I've never worked hands-on with a producer. I've been on my own writing, just taking beats and doing what I have to…

— Tink

Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most…

— Kevin Keck

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to…

— Katherine Paterson

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

— Samuel Beckett

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

— Jonathan Lethem

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

— John Mayer

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

— Pete Townshend

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

— Ian Gillan

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen