Writing Quotes · Page 457

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

— Glen Keane

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

— Anonymous

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

— Lauren Groff

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

— Jarvis Cocker

“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.”

— Shannon Alder

“I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.”

— Alan Dapre

“I had no way to stop . I did not write Fahrenheit 451, it wrote me.”

— Ray Bradbury

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

— Jonathan Lethem

time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs…

— Meg O'Brien

“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel…

— Colleen Hoover

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.

— Patty Jenkins

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted'…

— Kieron Gillen

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear…

— Janet Fitch

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get…

— E. B. White

[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism.…

— E.M. Forster

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as…

— Dr. Seuss

I'm not sure if it's because I'm older and I'm thinking about family more, but I'm trying to set up this thing…

— Bjork

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes…

— Dani Shapiro

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the…

— Herbert Spencer

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it…

— Eudora Welty

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's…

— Edie Falco

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

— Sylvia Day

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

— Marilynne Robinson

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

— Jeph Jacques

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

— Aden Young

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

— William Gibson

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.”

— Naomi Kinsman

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

— Anton Chekhov

“If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.”

— Hans Zimmer

GVQUsC Awesome blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Tenders

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

— Katherine Paterson

“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.”

— Don Roff