Writing Quotes · Page 393

“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.”

— Rachel Aaron

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

— John Irving

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

“A brick could be used as a paperweight, for people whose writing isn’t as dense or weighty as mine.
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— Jarod Kintz

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

— David Mamet

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow

Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to…

— Tayari Jones

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the…

— John Petrucci

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after…

— Dave Barry

“Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you…

— Anne Lamott

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into…

— William Butler Yeats

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young,…

— Troian Bellisario

“Want to write? Read. Want to write well? Read 3000 pages, and write 1000. At the end, you will be fluent in…

— Richard Wyndbourne

“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and…

— Cormac Mccarthy

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing…

— George Washington Carver

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my…

— Marshall McLuhan

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought…

— Philipp Meyer

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,…

— Chauncey Wright

I'm a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you're like, 'Oh,…

— Tom King

I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies.…

— Damon Lindelof

I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

— Prodigy

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

— S. J. Perelman

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

— Sarah Lancashire

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

— Patti Smith

“READERS ARE MY FAMILY AND IT IS MY DUTY TO WRITE FOR THEM.”

— Mahendra Trivedi

I don't think anybody likes to read people writing horrible stuff about you.

— Darren Bent

I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.

— Laurence Sterne

My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

— Tess Gerritsen

Very neat article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Bookmarking

“Writer’s block is akin to a “vacancy” sign; if you wait long enough they will eventually fill.”

— Nanette L. Avery

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

— Jonathan Franzen

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

— Toni Morrison