Writing Quotes · Page 406

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

— Lidija Dimkovska

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).

— Philip Larkin

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

— Lauren DeStefano

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

— William Gibson

“To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams”

— Rob Shepherd

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw…

— Rachel Gibson

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation…

— Richard K. Morgan

Everyday I'm writing a new quote.. but now I'm writing a book everyday.. a book of magic and spells to solve every…

— Avi ItaLlica

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings…

— Alfred Kazin

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express…

— Katie Kitamura

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

— Hisham Matar

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was…

— Ruskin Bond

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically…

— Truman Capote

“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German…

— Paul J. Silvia

I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear…

— Julia Stone

Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of…

— Barbara Abercrombie

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of…

— Stephen King

From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to…

— Rachel

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested…

— Gregory Peck

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

— Sean Wilentz

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D.

— D Michael Hardy

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

— Steven Wilson

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

— Sarah Mlynowski

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

— Hillary Clinton

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like…

— Courtney Barnett

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

— James Patterson

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

— Nate Ruess