Writing Quotes · Page 505

“To write, all you need is a creative mind and a lot of free time.”

— Cali Amber

“He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.”

— Eli Brown

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

— Harlan Coben

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

— George Bernard Shaw

When you get back into the editing suite in the cold light of day, the written stuff is better.

— Ricky Gervais

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

— William Gibson

“I write so the word, "Victim" will not be your mantra.”

— Otishia E

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel…

— Angel Olsen

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure…

— Philip Roth

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a…

— Dylan Moran

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

— Haruki Murakami

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books,…

— Colson Whitehead

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question.…

— Margaret Atwood

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to…

— Neel Mukherjee

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring…

— Chris Crutcher

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part…

— Graham Greene

Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing,…

— Tony Grisoni

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers…

— David Foster Wallace

If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see…

— Mose Allison

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might…

— Rob Zombie

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

— Flannery O'Connor

“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.”

— Cathryn Louis

“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Read more at”

— Amy Tan

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

— Michelle Dean

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

— Dolph Ziggler

As a ghost writer, many words I have written have been for someone else.

— Melissa Leong

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

— Richard Eberhart

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

— Sydney Pollack

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

— Anthony Bourdain

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

— Larry Clark

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

— Peter Morgan

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

— Eden Phillpotts