Writing Quotes · Page 528

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

— Sarah Kay

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

— Groucho Marx

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

— Ben Sollee

After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to…

— Laura Lippman

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I…

— Lee Child

“I hate when writers make Draco sweet. Sorry, but Draco's a bitch. Own it. I mean, yeah, he's a ball of mush…

— Becky Albertalli

To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and…

— Nick Cave

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started…

— Alex Borstein

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written…

— Lynn Johnston

Every man should write a brief history of his life: his parentage, his birth, his religion, when he was baptized and by…

— Wilford Woodruff

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…

— Paul Auster

“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this…

— T. Kingfisher

Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by…

— Christopher Columbus

“In 2015, the writer Alex Blank Millard engaged in her own gender-swap experiment to highlight the misogynist nature of online abuse. Sick…

— Emma A. Jane

It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as…

— Jeff Abbott

“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man…

— P.D. James

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If…

— Denis Leary

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Sometimes, all you have to do, is write something dow”

— Vivian Martin

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

— Anne Frank

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

— Carol Kane

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell