Writing Quotes · Page 397

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

— William Shenstone

“The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

— Gulzar

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

— Haaz Sleiman

“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a…

— Angela Carter

Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I…

— Blake Jenner

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even…

— Michelle Tea

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured…

— Joss Whedon

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller,…

— Barry Levinson

“Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

— Colum McCann

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue…

— Neil Cross

We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and…

— Lawrence Durrell

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

— Lois Lowry

“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.…

— Randy Alcorn

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced…

— Ed Brubaker

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces…

— Chuck Klosterman

“Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion…

— Roberto Bolaño

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.…

— Geraldine Brooks

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…

— Eudora Welty

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

— John Millington Synge

“I like to think when I'm writing about God I'm actually worshiping Him.”

— Alphys Pouvei

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

— Nancy Friday

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

— NF

“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Is 'creative writing program' oxymoronic? How could you teach someone to make something new?”

— Laurie Calhoun

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

— Danny Strong

“The best fiction writers are the most believable liars...”

— Bea Cannon

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

— Jonathan Ames

“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…”

— Leo Tolstoy

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

— Gillian Flynn

“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.”

— Zachary Koukol