Writing Quotes · Page 489

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

— Anonymous

Dont wait to write a book. Go ahead and share your thoughts.

— Stephen Ramjewan

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

— Peter Duncan

I have confidence in the songs that I've written and I'm not going to change anything.

— Tones and I

“Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.”

— Alan Watt

“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?”

— Dean Koontz

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

— Ray Bradbury

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are…

— Buddy Ebsen

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed…

— Avi

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

— Joseph Joubert

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

— William Monahan

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading…

— Anonymous

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

“The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images…

— Stephen King

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a…

— Luvvie Ajayi

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative…

— Karan Mahajan

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I…

— PJ Harvey

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a…

— Suzanne Collins

I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children.…

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt…

— Tiger Lewis

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some…

— Damon Lindelof

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that…

— Todd McFarlane

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as…

— Louisa May Alcott

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

— W. C. Sellar

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

— Dana Spiotta

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

— Jason Nash

I can write a death sentence; give me a pen, a heart, and the one who ripped it out.

— Johnneil Bertrand

We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.

— Alison McGhee

“I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.”

— Helen Humphreys

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

— Carrie Brownstein

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

— Glenn Hughes

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

— John Berryman

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

“The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.”

— robert m drake

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

— Conor Oberst

“He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.”

— Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson

“There's a good reason I am a writer. I'm completely useless at anything else.”

— Derek Haines

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol