Writing Quotes · Page 523

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive.

— Kevin Reilly

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

— Paulo Coelho

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

— Ian Rankin

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

— Alan Garner

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

— Leona Lewis

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the…

— Catherine the Great

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

— Bret Anthony Johnston

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

— Reinhold Messner

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and…

— Michael Jackson

“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of…

— David Smith

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run…

— Antonio Damasio

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will…

— Mark Lilla

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I thought 'Back To You' was a good show. The writers' strike really kind of put an end to that, though, honestly.…

— Kelsey Grammer

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They…

— David Leavitt

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a…

— William Carlos Williams

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a…

— J. K. Rowling

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of…

— J. R. Moehringer

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it.…

— Samuel Kermis

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

“Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind humongous words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

— Lee Child

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

— Colum McCann

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

— George Saintsbury

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

— Brad Thor

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

— Helen Keller

“Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year.”

— Harry Whittington

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

— Carlos Fuentes

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

— James P. Gorman

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

— Charles Bukowski

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

— Fred Allen

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

— Owen King

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

“It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart.”

— Stephen Chbosky