Writing Quotes · Page 493

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

— Don Gibson

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

— Jami Attenberg

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.

— Joe Harvey

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

— Kage Baker

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

— Michael Hirst

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

— Kobe Bryant

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

— Dan Brown

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on…

— Julianne Hough

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those…

— Tim Hecker

“The first sign that you've evolved as a writer is when MS WORD fails to make you feel guilty by putting a…

— Gaurav Sharma

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were…

— Karen Abbott

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their…

— Manuel Puig

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists.…

— Charlie Huston

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

— Gary Hamel

I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You…

— Jessie James Decker

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the…

— Isaac Asimov

“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and…

— Richard Selzer

It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even…

— Matthew Zapruder

“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background…

— James Rozoff

“When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a…

— Tom Althouse

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?…

— Martin McDonagh

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

— Natalie Prass

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic”

— William Gibson

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.”

— Shannon Celebi

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

— Bill Ayers

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

— Kathy Acker

“Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.”

— Jim Lewis

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

— Robert Hass

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

— Siobhan Fahey

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

— Marlon James

Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

— Larry Wilmore

“Everyone's life is a fairy tale writen by God's fingers”

— llHans Christian Anderson

“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

“The Sama Veda of India contains the world’s earliest writings on musical science. The”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You write something, but it does mean something else out

— Mak_786