Writing Quotes · Page 532

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

— Jonathan Franzen

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

— Joseph Heller

“Do writers of fiction tell lies or just tall stories?”

— Clive Owen Barry

“A writer hopes never to offend, but if he must, pray let him offend the gods before the reviewers.”

— Chila Woychik

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

— Michael Cunningham

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

— Andrew Flintoff

“Like so many writers - I need to keep my butt in the chair.”

— Tina Gayle

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for…

— Bob Kane

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of…

— Kate Bush

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not…

— Paul Bloom

“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t get it down on paper it decomposes in my head.
 This…

— Jarod Kintz

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop…

— Gza

I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true…

— Curtis Jackson

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

— Fiona Barton

“Much has been written and sung of the things we do for love and friendship. Not as much about the mistakes we…

— Jimmy A. Lerner

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.…

— Betty Smith

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly,…

— Robin Beth Schaer

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got…

— Colin Powell

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed…

— Tony D'Souza

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well…

— Ernest Hemingway

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way…

— Eric Bana

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be…

— Eudora Welty

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to…

— Leo C Rosten

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

— Washington Irving

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

— Pernell Roberts

In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.

— Louis van Gaal

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

— Virginia Woolf

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

— Diane Duane

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

— Joe Elliott

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

— Richard North Patterson

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

— Dean Koontz

“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.”

— Murong Xuecun

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

— Kool Keith

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana