Writing Quotes · Page 515

Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.

— Kat Von D

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

— Anonymous

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

— Pell James

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world…

— Edward Bond

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives,…

— Dane Cook

I've been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.

— Enzo Amore

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they…

— Natalie Goldberg

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

— Zachary Lazar

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,…

— Sharon Creech

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so…

— Octavia Butler

In English, you can find writers with a wonderful sense of humor, like Oscar Wilde. But in the French language, this is…

— Jesus Franco

I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find…

— Christine Sneed

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy…

— Anonymous

Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick…

— Sarah Dessen

Charles Graner is certainly guilty of terrible misjudgment. There's always a double standard. Everyone was happy to go to Graner's trial and…

— Seymour Hersh

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.…

— Donna Levin

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more…

— Paul Theroux

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

— Jack Woodford

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

“The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers!”

— C.S. Dixon

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

— Lewis Carroll

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

— James Richardson

“Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.”

— Victoria Janssen

“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Ron Parham

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

— Alice Walker

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver