Writing Quotes · Page 556

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

— Lewis Carroll

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

— Pell James

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

— Anonymous

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me…

— Loudon Wainwright III

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury…

— J. C. Chandor

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally…

— Jerry Stahl

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before…

— A. J. Jacobs

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to…

— Karen Abbott

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments…

— Nicholas Sparks

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to…

— Cameron Crowe

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to…

— Roger Ascham

Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,…

— Ron Rash

Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I…

— Thom Gunn

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote…

— Brian Regan

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested…

— Pat Benatar

“Imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms (Ps 12; 35; 52; 57—59; 69; 70; 83; 109; 137; 140) are usually lament psalms where the writer’s…

— Grant R. Osborne

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

— Jack Woodford

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

“I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don’t you?” - author Mark Merlis”

— Mark Merlis

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

— Elmore Leonard

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

— Eleanor Catton

Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.

— Kat Von D

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

— Brander Matthews

“I could write stories about my dreams that would make a person’s skin peel from their bones.”

— Kimberly Raiser

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.”

— Jane Yolen

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

— Mark Twain

I just Express out my Feelings on a piece of paper... And people says, I am a Writer

— Shashank Rayal