Writing Quotes · Page 436

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

— Mark Twain

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

— Anthony Shadid

You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.

— Joseph Sugarman

“You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

— Zadie Smith

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should…

— Constance Hale

“do you drink because you are afraid of life? the interviewer asked. disgusted with life is more like it, said the writer,…

— Charles Bukowski

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even…

— John Mulaney

“Thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I…

— William Shakespeare

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist…

— Hope Solo

“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But…

— Jarod Kintz

Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened…

— Peter Serafinowicz

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression…

— Agnes Denes

Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation,…

— Doris Grumbach

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me…

— Octavia Butler

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been…

— Mike Stoller

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central…

— Charlie Pierce

Oh, I'm going to miss everything. It's been the most amazing and significant job of my life obviously and I'll always have…

— Alyson Hannigan

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and…

— Melissa Febos

I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little…

— Richard Brancatisano

“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.”

— Jennifer Webb

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

— Chunky Pandey

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

— Graham Swift

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

— Anonymous

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.”

— John Steinbeck

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

— Rachel Gibson

“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.”

— Michael Jackson

“This brief transcript of moments, written in the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.”

— David Levithan

“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.”

— Katie McGarry

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano