Writing Quotes · Page 480

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

— Gerrit Noordzij

“Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise”

— Kahlil Gibran

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

— Charles de Lint

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

— Walter Mosley

“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”

— Mark Leidner

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

— A. A. Milne

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready…

— David Eddings

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop,…

— Joe Eszterhas

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful,…

— Richard Paul Evans

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair of jeans... The only way to write is to…

— Jeanette Winterson

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

— Elliott Smith

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation…

— Michel Houellebecq

There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now?…

— Haroon Moghul

And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and…

— Josh Lawson

'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue…

— Victoria Hanley

“Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writing the musical City of Angels was a wonderful job I gave myself. I returned to my loves of swing music and…

— Barbara Isenberg

Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader…

— Stephanie Strickland

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely…

— Jane Green

“I also know that what follows is far from the whole picture. It is not false modesty which prompts me to say…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“At digte, – det er at holde
 dommedag over sig selv.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

— Lori Lansens

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

— Pat Conroy

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

— Branford Marsalis

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

— Helen McCloy

No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.

— Charlaine Harris

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

— Richard Foreman

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a…

— Eva Gutowski

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

— Devin Townsend

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

— Mel Gibson

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everything I write in my show is a collaboration with a team.

— Nikki Glaser

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

— Hilary Mantel