Writing Quotes · Page 425

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

— Richard Eberhart

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

— Sydney Pollack

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

— Anthony Bourdain

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

— Larry Clark

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at…

— Charles R. Hall

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like…

— Brendon Urie

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by…

— Dove Cameron

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,…

— Alexander Pope

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out…

— Sophie Kinsella

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I…

— Matthea Harvey

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for…

— Alia Bhatt

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting…

— Janet Morris

“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward…

— Donald Miller

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some…

— Daniel Handler

“biblical theology by definition comes from the biblical text (or ought to), not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about…

— Michael S. Heiser

“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on…

— Natalie Goldberg

“The Choice You can carve out a life for yourself just as your bones have been carved from some larger bone your…

— Anonymous

But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

— Laura Wade

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

— Tierra Whack

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

— Owen Wilson

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

— Hope Jahren

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

[My] dream writers room: "'Taxi.' I need to write for someone named Judd."

— Judd Apatow

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

— Al Franken

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

— Alberto Manguel

“Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice!”

— AmBear Shellea

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

— Max Boot

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

— Charlie Chaplin

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

— J. K. Rowling

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives.”

— Kelly Gallagher

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

— Alexander Pope