Writing Quotes · Page 484

I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.

— Kameron Hurley

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

— Arthur Brisbane

“Music isn't from what is written on the paper, it is what we make the notes on the paper to be.”

— Anonymous

“Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?”

— Margaret Atwood

“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.”

— robert m drake

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

— Ivan Reitman

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the…

— Robert Pinsky

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s…

— Etty Hillesum

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college,…

— Tina Fey

“A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off…

— Ksenia Anske

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

— George Carlin

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

— Kiesza

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege…

— Jenny Han

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he…

— Seth Godin

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read…

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine…

— Ian Rankin

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was,…

— Heidi Julavits

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you…

— Christian Bale

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the…

— Jason Isbell

One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're…

— Jeff VanderMeer

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken…

— Shonda Rhimes

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

— Colin Quinn

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

— Mack Wilberg

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

— Jeff Greenfield

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

— Jed Mercurio

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

— Dinty W. Moore

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

— Natalie Goldberg

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

— Robert Falcon Scott

“You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.”

— Geraldine Solon

I think David S. Goyer is definitely a visionary writer and filmmaker.

— Bear McCreary

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

— Jamie Lidell

“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”

— Sara Sheridan

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg