Writing Quotes · Page 554

If I'm writing books, I'm a 'New York Times' bestseller - how do I do it all? I don't know.

— Farrah Abraham

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us”

— Stephen Chbosky

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”

— Peter Ackroyd

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

I wish my book of life had been written in pencil...there are a few pages I'd like to erase

— Julie Hernandez

“Write. If you've always dreamed of being a writer, write. Even if you think what you write is crap, write. You might…

— Stephen Woods

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck…

— Steven Heighton

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade…

— Dave deBronkart

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a…

— Derek Walcott

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more…

— Joan Didion

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary…

— Hassan Blasim

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can…

— Terri Windling

“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story,…

— Francis M. Nevins

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song…

— John Mayer

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's…

— Pico Iyer

I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to…

— Randy Owen

The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a…

— Fiona Barton

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested…

— Alexander Pope

I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so…

— Theresa Wayman

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

— Tim Cahill

“The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page”

— Gregory Orr

“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

— Jack Whitehall

“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”

— R.D. Larson

“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”

— Carl Henegan

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

— Kaci Brown

“I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?”

— Shannon Lynette

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

— Dustin Hoffman

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

— Laura Miller

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

— Morley Callaghan

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

— James M. Barrie

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

— Richard Flanagan

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan