Writing Quotes · Page 387

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

— Carol Shields

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

— Michael Dirda

I truly appreciate this blog.Thanks Again. Keep writing.

— Notebook Review

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

— John Cooper Clarke

“God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.”

— Martin Luther

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

— Brenda Ueland

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

From past experience I wouldn't go out with another musician. With song writing people can be a bit sensitive. Something completely different,…

— Nina Nesbitt

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process:…

— iJustine

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

— Brandon Sanderson

“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often…

— Marta McDowell

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand,…

— Taylor Sheridan

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

— Chip Esten

I'm not sure I could ever write for adults. That's not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are…

— Angie Thomas

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some…

— Jon Postel

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I…

— Linda Sue Park

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and…

— Alexandra Adornetto

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson

“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective,…

— Wally Lamb

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do…

— Lorrie Moore

Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There…

— Fede Alvarez

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such…

— Kyle Minor

“Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.”

— Mary Papas

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

— Kim Hyesoon

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

— Rob Crow

“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

— Richard Greenberg

“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

— Ray Bradbury

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

— Gena Rowlands

STFc2k I value the article.Really thank you! Keep writing.

— Tenders

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

— Henry David Thoreau

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

— Anne Carson

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

— Tanya Saracho