Writing Quotes · Page 545

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”

— Douglas Adams

“One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.”

— Sara Sheridan

If you care about who I want to write about, I'll write about the people you want to read about.

— Robert Hilburn

It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

— Kali Uchis

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

— Sidney Sheldon

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

— John Taylor

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

— Meg Cabot

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're…

— Will Shetterly

“You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.”

— Rowan Ricardo Phillips

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

— Isaac Rosenberg

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try…

— Barack Obama

We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect…

— Carolyn Coman

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing…

— Phil Anselmo

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a…

— Richard LaGravenese

I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way…

— Sarah Blasko

“The letters she writes me, take me to a magical world she created, while we visualize every word written. She watches it…

— Sameer Khan

“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology,…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private…

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about…

— Zachary Quinto

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon…

— Michael Morpurgo

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

— Jeremy Corbyn

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

— Kevin DeYoung

“A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something”

— John Gardner

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

— Mason Cooley

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

— Geoff Dyer

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

— Joshua Mohr

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

— John Krasinski

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

— Ray Bradbury

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

— Melanie Martinez