Writing Quotes · Page 522

“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Angeline M. Bishop

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

— Doris Lessing

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

— Wayne Dyer

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

“AuthorZoom- You do the writing, let us do the rest.”

— Christopher Seufert

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

— Tomi Adeyemi

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

— Max Lucado

I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.

— Millie Bobby Brown

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,…

— Louise Erdrich

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

— Samuel Johnson

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,…

— Harper Lee

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of…

— Charlie Day

I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just…

— Sia

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet…

— Kid Rock

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of…

— Alain de Botton

I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.…

— Harriet Doerr

Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an…

— James Kenneth Stephen

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts…

— MaryJanice Davidson

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.…

— John Steinbeck

Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.…

— Dave Barry

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

— Ryan Ross

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

— Agnes Repplier

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work.

— Tibor Fischer

“The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.”

— Suzanna Reeves

“Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.”

— Coco J. Ginger

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

— Ruth Ozeki

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

— Katherine Paterson

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

— George W. Bush

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

— Franz Kafka

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

— John Philip Sousa

I had tried to write about young women in London who had jobs and boyfriends, and it was so tedious.

— Emma Healey

“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.”

— James Cambias