Writing Quotes · Page 474

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

— William Saroyan

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

— Rick Moody

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

— Frederick Busch

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

— Ricky Schroder

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

— Irving Stone

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect…

— Richard Ford

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

— Michael Landon

I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have…

— Jesse Andrews

“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take…

— Michelle M. Pillow

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

— Tom Van Vleck

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and…

— Rick Moody

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is…

— David Rakoff

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk…

— Didi Conn

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still…

— David B. Coe

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them…

— Daniel Handler

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to…

— John Green

It makes me feel like a brother, or a son that people still care for me... that I have so many fans,…

— Asafa Powell

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.…

— Sherman Alexie

It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before…

— Mitch Lucker

“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.”

— Rachel Aaron

I know I'm born to be a writer and a musician - that's what I love and am supposed to do.

— Ruel

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

— Paulo Coelho

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

— V. S. Naipaul

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

— John Irving

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

“A brick could be used as a paperweight, for people whose writing isn’t as dense or weighty as mine.
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— Jarod Kintz

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

— David Mamet

Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

— Prodigy

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

— S. J. Perelman

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

“READERS ARE MY FAMILY AND IT IS MY DUTY TO WRITE FOR THEM.”

— Mahendra Trivedi