Writing Quotes · Page 560

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”

— Shabbeer Ahmed

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

— Lorin Stein

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

— Laurie R. King

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone…

— Karl Kristian Flores

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to listen to your mind and endure the life of the writer”

— Wahab Oriyomi Osuolale

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by…

— Thornton Wilder

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well…

— John Heath-Stubbs

“Whoa," I say. "Look how tall he is." "Actors are always midgets in person," says Brandon, "But writers...they're giants.”

— Matthew Norman

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors.…

— Terri Windling

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of…

— Robert Gottlieb

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially…

— Micere Githae Mugo

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up…

— Lisa Scottoline

A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of…

— Nicholas Sparks

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it.…

— Seth Godin

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;…

— Harper Lee

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?" said…

— George Eliot

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write,…

— Al Jaffee

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always…

— Bruce Springsteen

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

— Alexander Pope

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

— Andrew Dice Clay

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

— Raymond Carver

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper.

— Michelle L Buckley

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

— Oscar Wilde

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

— Yann Tiersen

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

— Truman Capote

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

— Peter Morgan

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

— Evangeline Lilly

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff