Writing Quotes · Page 410

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

— Ray Bradbury

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

— Marilynne Robinson

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

— Jeph Jacques

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

— Aden Young

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

— William Gibson

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we…

— Francine Prose

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz.…

— Harvey Pekar

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here…

— Lou Reed

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

— Sarah McLachlan

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading…

— Roxane Gay

I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically,…

— Chaz Bundick

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

— Sterling W Sill

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can…

— Ernest Hemingway

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what…

— Adam Gopnik

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I…

— Julia Cameron

I don't support or unsupport Assange. If the Democrats had the proper defensive devices on their internet, equipment, they wouldn't even allow…

— Donald Trump

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is…

— Stephen King

You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody…

— Robert Ben Garant

In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek…

— Zack Snyder

“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in…

— Philip Roth

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

— Anton Chekhov

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.”

— Naomi Kinsman

“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.”

— Don Roff

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

— Katherine Paterson

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

GVQUsC Awesome blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Tenders

“If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.”

— Hans Zimmer

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

— Paul Haggis

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

— Leslie Banks

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

— Charles Murray

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

— Guy Gavriel Kay