Writing Quotes · Page 504

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

— Al Franken

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

— Alberto Manguel

“Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice!”

— AmBear Shellea

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

— Max Boot

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

— Charlie Chaplin

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

— J. K. Rowling

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives.”

— Kelly Gallagher

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I…

— Jessa Crispin

I love a psychological thriller, particularly ones that are written by women. I've just finished 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, which was…

— Sarah Alexander

“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

— Katherine Mansfield

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much…

— John Scott

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself -…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a…

— Maeve Binchy

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not…

— Toni Morrison

If you have five weeks to write an episode of television or seven months to write a movie or several years to…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes…

— Filippo Bologna

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying…

— Amos Oz

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes…

— Brian Eno

It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The…

— Al Jourgensen

“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When…

— Roman Payne

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against…

— Jesmyn Ward

The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is…

— Marilynne Robinson

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

— Alexander Pope

“Write everyday. read everyday. You don't have to be perfect, you have to committed.”

— John Hamrick

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

— Asher Roth

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

“Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.”

— Kartik Mehta

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

— Henry Miller

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

— Hal Duncan

“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.”

— Isabel Allende

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

“I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.”

— Piers Anthony