Writing Quotes · Page 45

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

— Nalini Singh

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

— O. Henry

I loved the process of writing.

— Nora Roberts

“Explore many facets of the written word.”

— Anonymous

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

Don't talk about it; write.

— Ray Bradbury

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.

— Susannah Cahalan

“You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist”

— john j geddes

“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.”

— Robert Galbraith

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

— Daphne Guinness

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

— Chris Claremont

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

— Carol Kane

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing…

— Noel Redding

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to…

— Chad Gilbert

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like…

— Koren Zailckas

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's…

— Haruki Murakami

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion…

— Jane Leavy

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and…

— Nadine Gordimer

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had…

— Xavier Dolan

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the…

— Susan Orlean

I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount…

— David Wain

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are…

— Steve Toltz

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music…

— Barry Hannah

“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...…

— Charles de Lint

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are…

— Jon Landau

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation…

— Calvin Trillin

“depression is stupid and not a thing that makes me a better writer. one time i went a whole year without writing…

— Joshua Espinoza

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

— Dido Armstrong

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I just like doing it, I like writing.

— Alice Mattison

I don't write letters anymore.

— George H. W. Bush

I'm such a first-person writer.

— Laura van den Berg

Suspect all your favorite sentences.

— Kenneth Atchity

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

Sean's a great, great writer.

— Anonymous