Writing Quotes · Page 434

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

— John Logan

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

— King Krule

I loved every minute of the scripting, writing and developing of 'APL.'

— Rajpal Yadav

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

— Umberto Eco

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

— Charles Simic

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

— James Acaster

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”

— RaeBeth McGee

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to…

— Gillian Jacobs

“I want to write a novel that is so good it causes readers to ignore meals, sleep, work, friends and spouses!!”

— R.E. Fisher

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house…

— D. B. Weiss

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the…

— Boris Pasternak

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems,…

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart." J.L. Bond”

— J.L. Bond

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory…

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the…

— Peter Elbow

When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,…

— Len Wein

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:…

— Sophie Hannah

I can't write a piece of music in a void, I have to know what instrument I'm writing it for. In the…

— Bear McCreary

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might…

— Antonin Artaud

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only…

— George Saunders

“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to…

— K. Lee Lerner

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”

— David Burr Gerrard

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

— Ken Hill

“Because writing gave meaning to my life. In case you haven’t noticed, life generally”

— Joël Dicker

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

— William Zinsser

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

— Neil Gaiman

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

— Henrik Ibsen