Writing Quotes · Page 512

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

— Elfriede Jelinek

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

— Lauren Mayberry

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

— Patricia Highsmith

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

— Steve Buscemi

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!”

— Christina Westover

“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”

— Robert Galbraith

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles…

— Marianne Williamson

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

— Cole Porter

I'm a storyteller in a joke format. I tell stories, I try to have a lot of jokes constantly through that story.…

— Nate Bargatze

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing…

— Joe Posnanski

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what…

— Diane Warren

“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over…

— Bret Easton Ellis

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery…

— Jenny Offill

If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications.

— Torrey Peters

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source…

— Manly Hall

Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what…

— R. L. Stine

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's…

— Rupert Murdoch

My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for…

— Robert Christgau

“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His…

— A.S. Byatt

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair…

— Tom Robbins

Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against…

— John D'Agata

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes…

— Edwidge Danticat

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

— Kerry King

“Writing isn't a hobby, it's a lifestyle and a movement.”

— Lilith. A

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

— Melanie Benjamin

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

— Brendan Kennelly

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

— William Zinsser

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

— Parul Sehgal

“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.”

— Christina Cooke

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

— Chaim Potok

“Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.”

— Brian A. McBride

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison