Writing Quotes · Page 535

You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.

— Kwame Alexander

“Don't be the forgotten voice in an unwritten book. Ikke bli den glemte stemmen i en uskreven bok.”

— Atle Jarnæs Lerøy

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

— Chuck D

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.

— C. J. Cherryh

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

— Chesa Boudin

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

— John Major

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

— Costa Ronin

“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the…

— Matthea Harvey

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on…

— Dan Harmon

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

— Stephen King

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where…

— Luis Negron

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

— Andre Dubus

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

— Stevie Wonder

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had…

— Ruth Ozeki

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have…

— Elena Ferrante

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what…

— Adam Gopnik

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can…

— Ernest Hemingway

The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is…

— Billy Howle

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would…

— Stephen King

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…

— Joan Didion

“People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as…

— Angela Carter

“The anti-Stratfordians hold that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays—it was another fellow of the same name, or of a different name. In…

— David Mamet

We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his…

— Clara Jeffery

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

“David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.”

— Mary Papas

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

— Al Franken

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

— Joseph O'Neill

“I am still writing my way toward a place where I fit.”

— Roxane Gay

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

— John Milius

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

— Roald Dahl

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

— Jean Sibelius

“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.”

— Colleen Hoover

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

— Paul Auster

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec