Writing Quotes · Page 534

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

— John Updike

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“The storyteller in me asks: what if? And when I try to answer that, a story begins”

— Jane Yolen

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

— Paul Beatty

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

— Philippa Gregory

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

— Steve Martin

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle…

— George Meyer

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned,…

— Taylor Swift

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a…

— Jane Jacobs

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to…

— Oscar Wilde

When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age…

— Milan Kundera

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves…

— Marguerite Duras

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call…

— Michael Card

I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area.…

— Rhianna Pratchett

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a…

— David Perry

“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in…

— Philip Roth

In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek…

— Zack Snyder

You need to know that going in, and you also need to be able to write all the time. So when somebody…

— Robert Ben Garant

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is…

— Stephen King

Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I…

— Julia Cameron

I don't support or unsupport Assange. If the Democrats had the proper defensive devices on their internet, equipment, they wouldn't even allow…

— Donald Trump

“The Zoe is the book you’ve been writing in. It means “life” in Greek.”

— Nicole Gulla

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

— Neil Gaiman

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

— Aimee Mann

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

— Suzy Bogguss

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

— Paul Valery

“She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.”

— Eveli Acosta

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

— Brendan Behan

“To all those aspiring writers who dream first and sleep later.”

— L.C. Perry

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Philippe Sollers

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

— Jeff Ament

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

— Honore de Balzac

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

— William Faulkner

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

— Saul Kripke

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

— James Hunter