Writing Quotes · Page 377

“Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.”

— Glen Hirshberg

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

— Sophie Hannah

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

— Christopher Hitchens

“I spill my heart on pure white pages, and let the ink dance and twirl into the splattered story of my soul.”

— Liz Newman

“Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod…

— Ed Falco

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day,…

— Kristen Schaal

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity,…

— Jodie Foster

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of…

— Paul Auster

“I should like to write four lines at a time, describing the same feeling, as a musician does; because it always seems…

— Virginia Woolf

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first…

— Mary C. Ames

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history,…

— Yiyun Li

“Someties it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week,…

— Randall Jarrell

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and…

— James Ellroy

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

— Kate DiCamillo

In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion…

— Erik Wolpaw

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to…

— Neil Burger

I'm so grateful to Hugo Lindgren, Jon Kelly, and the people who gave me the opportunity to write a weekly column. It's…

— David Plotz

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

— Gustave Flaubert

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

— Robert Hass

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

— Caterina Sforza

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

— Meg Rosoff

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

— Brom

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

— Michael Korda

“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”

— Wilco

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.”

— Theodora Goss

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes