Writing Quotes · Page 533

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

— Ken Kalfus

“Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.”

— Cherise Wolas

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

— Maxine Kumin

It's not till after you pass when people appreciate your worth..

— Raghib Clitso

“She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...”

— Virginia Woolf

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

— Arthur Koestler

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

— Vikram Seth

I wonder if I'll meet one person that knows enough people that can get me recognized as a writer. Oh I already…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

— Jackie Collins

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the…

— John Scalzi

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve…

— Steven Erikson

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things…

— Natalie Goldberg

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was…

— Flume

He didnt answer, Heath came out of the tree line, along with three other guys. We cant stay here any longer, Dallas…

— Jade

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,…

— Nathalie Handal

It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan…

— Jeff Bezos

Writing is close to acting. In directing, you control. Acting, you can't control how good you are, and you can't control how…

— Elaine May

I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him -…

— Alan Lightman

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced,…

— Ol Parker

You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read…

— Gary Giddins

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

— William Safire

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

— Sia

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

— John le Carre

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately Im writing in pen and I cant erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

“I write for teens (I am one!) and I hope to help them connect with the writings and enjoy reading.”

— Cali Amber

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

— Moby

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

— Bill Bryson

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

— Bertrand Russell

He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate.

— Needa Muy

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.

— Guillermo del Toro

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

— Jess Walter

“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”

— Steve Aylett