Writing Quotes · Page 497

“At the heart of everything I write is a love story.”

— Adrienne Thompson

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

— Emm Gryner

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.

— Zac Farro

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.”

— Samuel Johnson

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

— Anna Quindlen

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

— John McWhorter

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head,…

— Neil Young

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with…

— Peter Robinson

It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that…

— Nicholas Sparks

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African…

— Henning Mankell

“Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet. The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe.…

— J.R. Ortiz

“We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in…

— Brian D. McLaren

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.…

— David Oyelowo

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy…

— Peter Fonda

You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating…

— Gavin Creel

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then…

— Gary Shteyngart

I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying…

— Paul Simon

I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's…

— David Sedaris

“Garp discovered that when you are writing something, everything seems related to everything else.”

— John Irving

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

— June Jordan

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

— Virginia Woolf

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

— Khushwant Singh

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

— Ashley McBryde

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

— Paula McLain

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

— Nell Zink

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

— Fran Lebowitz

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

— Olivia d'Abo

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

— Nigel Kneale

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

— Maya Angelou

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

— Shaun Fleming

“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”

— Scarlett Thomas

James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.

— Samuel Beckett