Writing Quotes · Page 401

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

— Anais Nin

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

— Robert Walser

When it comes to details, more is not necessarily better.

— Donna Levin

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

— Adolph Saphir

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

— Taryn Manning

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing -…

— Sylvia Plath

“Make sure you write it all down, now. Everything you see and think and feel. Your voice is your own, it matters.”

— Kate Morton

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words…

— Stanley Clarke

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure…

— Lord Byron

You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is…

— Atalina Wright

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're…

— Damon Albarn

“I have found that the tools for my trade- writing, are very basic: paper, a pen, time, food and perhaps a little…

— José N. Harris

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was…

— John Green

I admire writers who have the tenacity to write a blog, and I'm told by everyone that it's an important element in…

— David Starkey

I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his…

— Joanna Scott

The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody…

— Toni Morrison

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,…

— William Shatner

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about…

— Jim Rash

I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people…

— Chris Carmack

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as…

— John Updike

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

— Walter Jon Williams

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

— E. B. White

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

— John Dewey

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

— Jeffery Deaver

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

— Uzodinma Iweala

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

— Tom Allen

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.

— Paul Weller

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

— Donna McKechnie

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

— Poo Bear

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

— Roger Rosenblatt

I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer.

— George Pelecanos

“Write for the love of storytelling, not the acclaim.”

— Airambooksie