Writing Quotes · Page 548

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

— Samuel Johnson

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

— Bradford Cox

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

— Christopher Morley

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

— John Steinbeck

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

— Michael Scott

“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

— Kate DiCamillo

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and…

— Umberto Eco

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write…

— David Mitchell

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

— Anonymous

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the…

— Patrick Stump

I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of…

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like…

— Justin Cronin

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so…

— William S. Burroughs

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least…

— John D'Agata

I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.…

— Chuck Wendig

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its…

— Juliana Hatfield

Words only write your words if you dont your heart will fall in drop it, dont let it drop leave it all…

— Natalya Johnson

“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done…

— Michael Stuckey

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great…

— Sally Hawkins

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

— Seth Godin

I wanted to get better at writing, so I knew I needed to move to Nashville.

— Cole Swindell

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

— Clarice Lispector

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

— William Landay

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

— Erica Jong

“Structure doesn't make a story formulaic. The writer does.”

— Peter Arpesella

I write not because I'm free but because everyday I find some time for myself¦

— Nishan Panwar

“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.”

— Stephen King

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

“He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

— Carl Jung

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Being able to write a tale within a Tweet some would say was mighty sweet”

— Neil Leckman