Writing Quotes · Page 463

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

— Ambrose Bierce

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).

— Philip Larkin

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

— Lauren DeStefano

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

— Sean Wilentz

“To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams”

— Rob Shepherd

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words…

— Georgia Heard

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

— Lawrence Wright

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and…

— J. J. Cale

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song…

— JC Chasez

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the…

— Maureen Howard

“All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.”

— Ole Gunnar Håland

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

— Arthur Miller

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

— Charlie Kaufman

I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a…

— Meghan Daum

“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will…

— Agatha Christie

When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able…

— Anthony DeCurtis

For me, as a trans writer, is the Philip Roth trajectory available to me? Could I be commenting on American stuff long…

— Torrey Peters

I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that…

— Dan Brown

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA…

— Kevin Sessums

“But it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone.…

— Marybeth Lorbiecki

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D.

— D Michael Hardy

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

— Steven Wilson

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like…

— Courtney Barnett

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

— Sarah Mlynowski

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

— Hillary Clinton

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

— Farhan Akhtar

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

— Alice Cooper

That's my favourite stuff to write about: my journeys and the people I meet - especially the kids.

— Natalya Neidhart

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

— Nate Ruess

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

— James Patterson

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy