Writing Quotes · Page 419

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

— Walter Jon Williams

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

— John Pilger

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

— Miguel McKelvey

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

— Jason Katims

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

— Stephen King

“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.”

— Cory Doctorow

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

“At the end of their journey, a hero may stand in the same place where their story started, but nevertheless they have…

— Amanda Gorman

I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful…

— Sarah Mlynowski

“INTERVIEWER Have you ever been envious of another writer? WODEHOUSE No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a…

— Pharoahe Monch

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases…

— Chang-Rae Lee

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the…

— Roxane Gay

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use…

— Alice Hoffman

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion,…

— Eldridge Cleaver

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of…

— Jim Butcher

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.…

— John Crowley

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's…

— Taylor Swift

“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not…

— Pamela Paul

A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who…

— Michael Hastings

It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have…

— John L. DeWitt

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

— Cameron Crowe

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

— Brian Fallon

“My three C's of writing: chocolate, cat and computer. Check, check and check.”

— Wendy L. Schmidt

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.

— Paula White

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

— Hannibal Buress

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

— Jorja Smith

I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

— Harry Enfield

I started to learn how to write complete songs on the computer.

— Andrey Rublev

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.”

— Robert Galbraith

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

— Stephen King

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser

As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

— Janeane Garofalo

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

— Chinua Achebe

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

— Biz Stone

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green