Writing Quotes · Page 382

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

— Edwin Schlossberg

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

— David Malouf

Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.

— Amanda Warren

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?”

— Christian Wiman

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

— Ryan North

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

— Kathy Reichs

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why…

— Mark Manson

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on…

— Sally Rooney

“So I "feckup" words sometimes...I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company.”

— Emma Paul

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What…

— Amado Nervo

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it…

— Christopher Owens

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists…

— Stephen King

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a…

— Hans Zimmer

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write…

— Aldous Huxley

Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another.…

— Alexandra Fuller

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see,…

— Kate Mosse

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief…

— Brian Evenson

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move…

— Elizabeth Sims

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are…

— Katherine Paterson

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to…

— Josh Elliott

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know…

— Bob Dylan

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

— Heather Armstrong

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

— e. e. cummings

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

— Paris Hilton

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

— Patrick Marber

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

— Adam Rapp

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

— Kate Bush

Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.

— Katherine Dunn

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

“It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

— Hortense Calisher

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken