Writing Quotes · Page 547

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

— Chinua Achebe

As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

— Janeane Garofalo

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.

— Paula White

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

— Hannibal Buress

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

— Brian Fallon

“My three C's of writing: chocolate, cat and computer. Check, check and check.”

— Wendy L. Schmidt

“Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing and guitar…

— Avijeet Das

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different…

— Allison Mack

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

— Susan Sontag

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll…

— Erica Jong

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point,…

— Fede Alvarez

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them…

— Garth Nix

Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free…

— Margaret Foley

Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North…

— Susan Sontag

When I was younger I was influenced by Kanye, his story of coming up and how he kept producing and producing and…

— PartyNextDoor

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover…

— Norman Mailer

It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want…

— Ryan T. Murphy

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the…

— David James Duncan

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great…

— Rabih Alameddine

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle…

— Nick Cave

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on…

— Heidi Julavits

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

— Cameron Crowe

I started to learn how to write complete songs on the computer.

— Andrey Rublev

I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

— Harry Enfield

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

— Jorja Smith

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

— John Pilger

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

— Miguel McKelvey

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

— Steve Ballmer

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

— Walter Jon Williams

“Writing is the mirror in which I see myself most clearly.”

— Brett Biaggio

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

— Will Rogers

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

“For me -- for pretty much every writer -- the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.”

— Cory Doctorow

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

— Stephen King

I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

— Jason Katims