Writing Quotes · Page 433

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

— William Zinsser

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.”

— Christina Cooke

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

— Parul Sehgal

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

— Chaim Potok

“Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.”

— Brian A. McBride

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In…

— Eric Bogosian

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to…

— Evan Dando

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away…

— Felix Dennis

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad…

— Michael Moorcock

What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.

— David Brock

I'm writing kid's books, I'm doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I've also got my own range of cycling…

— Chris Hoy

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is…

— William Zinsser

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of…

— Paul de Man

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the…

— Robin Sloan

“Would-be writers often ask me, do I ever get writer's block! I tell them, you get writer's block when you're imprisoned in…

— Abhijit Naskar

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when…

— Ann Hood

“I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about…

— Marilynne Robinson

I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the…

— Johnny Cash

“In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things…

— Brenda Ueland

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized.…

— Kimberly Peirce

After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles…

— Mary Blakely

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

— Charity Parkerson

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

— Fiona Shaw

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

— Walt Kelly

To all my haters , I hope you know I'm writing this with my middle finger.

— Wiz Khalifa

“A writer must always be the no.1 fan of their book,”

— Aditi Dufare

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

— Jello Biafra

Life Should Be Written With PencIl, So U CaN Go BaCk AnD ErAsE Ur MisTaKes

— Anonymous

Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out.

— Junot Diaz

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.”

— Stephen King

“Where the concrete kept his pain at bay, the page gave his pain a place to go.”

— Daniel Abbott

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work

— Gay Talese

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

— Paulo Coelho

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

— Laura Riding