Writing Quotes · Page 458

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

— Paul Haggis

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

— Leslie Banks

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

— Ernest Gaines

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

— Garth Stein

“Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take…

— J.E. Negrete

I like Kehlani a lot because she's on her grind; she does everything herself. She's writing her own music and, you know,…

— Bryson Tiller

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

— Jonathan Coe

The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right…

— Chris Rock

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument…

— Saul Williams

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped…

— Anthony Horowitz

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person…

— Cynthia Voigt

I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm…

— Aaron Sorkin

In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to…

— Bassam Tibi

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become…

— Donald Harington

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800…

— Eric Liu

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights…

— Tom Morello

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths…

— Douglas Coupland

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

— Mike O'Brien

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

— John Tavener

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

— Amelie Nothomb

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

— Susan Sontag

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

— Charles Murray

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

— Matt Groening

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

— Amor Towles

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

— Elizabeth Berg