Writing Quotes · Page 372

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

— Brad Thor

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

— Larry David

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

— Walter Lord

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else…

— Michael Koryta

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find…

— Alex Borstein

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t…

— Tina Fey

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his…

— Norman Lindsay

“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't…

— Sara Sheridan

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art…

— Aden Young

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that…

— Sally Hawkins

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so…

— John D. Barrow

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years…

— Dean Wareham

I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing…

— Tony Kushner

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess…

— Douglas Coupland

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be…

— Sara Paretsky

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

— Natalie Goldberg

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”

— Khaled Talib

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

— Lloyd Alexander

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

— Piers Anthony

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin