Writing Quotes · Page 510

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

— James Acaster

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”

— RaeBeth McGee

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”

— David Burr Gerrard

I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter,…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

— Herbert C. Brown

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to…

— Rachel Kushner

“Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist’s general disposition…

— Henry James

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

— Eric Heisserer

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the…

— Coco Jones

I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing…

— John Fogerty

American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive…

— George Mikes

Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on…

— Anonymous

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we…

— Janet Fitch

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Whenever a Christian layman, minister, writer, teacher, or whoever it might be, gets to thinking that there is something important about him,…

— Richard D. Phillips

Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To…

— André Brink

Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years…

— Brent Smith

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

— Ken Hill

“Because writing gave meaning to my life. In case you haven’t noticed, life generally”

— Joël Dicker

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind,

— William Zinsser

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

— Tony Judt

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

— Neil Gaiman

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

— Henrik Ibsen

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi