Writing Quotes · Page 494

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

— E.M. Forster

“The three rules to writing a novel; 1) Write 2) Write more 3) Keep writing”

— SciFurz

“Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.”

— Norman Mailer

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

— David Antin

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

— Mason Cooley

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

— Vince Flynn

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

— Bruce Springsteen

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

— Robert Penn Warren

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of…

— Wale

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

— Cathy Horyn

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

— Bruce Dickinson

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a…

— Norman Lear

I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed…

— Naomi Alderman

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people.…

— Kiese Laymon

“I began writing late in life but I've learned that the more life you absorb, the more you have to say and…

— Andrea Zug

“But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You…

— John Irving

We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on…

— Jez Williams

In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,…

— Don Pendleton

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and…

— Eric Brown

What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing…

— Nick Heyward

I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that…

— Rachel Kushner

Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us…

— David Mamet

If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to…

— Stephen Sondheim

The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality,…

— Harlan Ellison

Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

— Italo Calvino

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

— Anton Chekhov

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

— Salman Rushdie

I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that.

— Rupi Kaur

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

— Jonathan Evison

Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.

— Ann Packer

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

— Gwen Stefani

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

— Kellin Quinn

“To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood”

— Yvonne Blackwood

“Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.”

— Joanne Kraft

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

— Claire Danes

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

— George D. Prentice

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King