Writing Quotes · Page 466

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

— Diane Ackerman

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

— Nat Hentoff

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

— Peter Gizzi

The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

— Alice Ripley

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.

— David Lowery

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

— Kevin Starr

“In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?”

— Albert J. LaChance

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new…

— Josh Radnor

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify…

— Paul Auster

I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs…

— Michael Arrington

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's…

— William Golding

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically…

— Michael Connelly

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up…

— Stephen King

It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.

— Stephen McCauley

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep…

— H. P. Lovecraft

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my…

— Tina St. John

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in…

— Richard Stallman

I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There…

— Mickey Newbury

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer…

— Criss Jami

“And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of…

— Roald Dahl

I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I…

— Suw Charman-Anderson

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a…

— Anonymous

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

— David Milch

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

— Anais Nin

When it comes to details, more is not necessarily better.

— Donna Levin

What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets

— Adolph Saphir

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

— Robert Walser

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

— Walter Jon Williams

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

— Byron White

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

— Taryn Manning

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

— E. B. White

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.

— Paul Weller