Writing Quotes · Page 460

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

— Charles Stross

“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.”

— Heidi Pitlor

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

— Patti Smith

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

— Rumi

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

— John Mortimer

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think…Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

— David McCullough

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont…

— David Levithan

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

— Patti Smith

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the…

— Paolo Nutini

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically ,…

— Gerardo Suter

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

— Shawn Colvin

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of…

— Kate DiCamillo

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader…

— Joseph Addison

“In 2015, the writer Alex Blank Millard engaged in her own gender-swap experiment to highlight the misogynist nature of online abuse. Sick…

— Emma A. Jane

It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as…

— Jeff Abbott

Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by…

— Christopher Columbus

“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this…

— T. Kingfisher

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by…

— Wilford Woodruff

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…

— Paul Auster

You can speak universally by writing your specifics. That's historically been the case with authors like Philip Roth writing about New Jersey…

— Torrey Peters

A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real…

— Cassandra Clare

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

— Richard Bach

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

— Vijay Deverakonda

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

— Judy Gold

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

— Eric Bachmann

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

— Sayed Kashua

“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a…

— Justin Cartwright

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.”

— Peggy Randall-Martin