Writing Quotes · Page 498

Negative comments cut deep and yet I remain polite..

— Raghib Clitso

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

— Bill Roorbach

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

— John Cheever

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

— Frederick Buechner

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

— Danny Strong

People either fall into two camps, where they're pro-fanfic, or they're anti-fanfic. I would not have had the skills to write and…

— Marjorie Liu

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything…

— Lionel Shriver

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I…

— Paul Sparks

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics…

— Marjorie Liu

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

— Goldwin Smith

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

— Katy Perry

The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With…

— Sam Shepard

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,…

— Denis Leary

A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists.…

— Charli XCX

Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes…

— Amanda Shires

I think you can't write with anger. I think it always has to be with a wink. There always has to be…

— Mark Russell

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of…

— Ian Anderson

“So many writers had grown lyrical over spring. And, one must admit, it was easy to love a lamb: but how soon…

— Heron Carvic

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much…

— Patricia MacLachlan

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself…

— Katherine Mansfield

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”

— Jane Austen

I can write in my living room with my wife and kid around.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Think before you write, and write before you think again”

— Faiza Afliha

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

— Harold Ross

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

— Tomi Adeyemi

I've realised that my strength is writing around people.

— Lee Mack

“Every writing project must be reduced before you start to write.”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

— Robertson Davies

Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

— Joshua Prager

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

— Kyle Gass

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

— David Hare

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

— Jimmy Webb

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

— Ray Bradbury

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

— E. M. Forster