Writing Quotes · Page 531

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

— Norman Mailer

I love Bruce Springsteen's writing, but I grew up on '90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest.

— Mat Kearney

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

— Melvyn Bragg

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

— Philip Pullman

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

— Gene Wilder

“Robert Frost said, “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Kim Addonizio

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you…

— Joe Mantello

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to…

— Misha Green

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people…

— Karen Traviss

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should…

— Anne Enright

“Writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.”

— Phil Dusenberry

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

— Conor McPherson

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious…

— David Farr

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than…

— Jess Walter

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a…

— Dan Brown

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and…

— George Orwell

I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many…

— Hilary Kornblith

“His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge…

— Jim Al-Khalili

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a…

— Henry James

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart…

— Anonymous

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

— Etgar Keret

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

— Stephen King

“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.”

— Kate De Goldi

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

— Bernard Malamud

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

— Margaret Atwood

That's hard to write something that makes you laugh out loud.

— Janelle James

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

— Alexis Bledel

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

— Vivek Shraya

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

— Jack Kerouac

“In my life I haven’t done anything worth writing about, but that’s OK. That’s why I write fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

— Dave Thomas

“Sometimes I write just to find out what happens next.”

— G. David Walker

I think the hardest thing, really, is trying not to write.

— Kevin Young