Writing Quotes · Page 564

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

— Samuel Daniel

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

— Sheila Heti

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

— Diane Ackerman

In fact, I only had a cameo role in 'QH,' but the writer and director sensed my talent and in Season 2…

— Amrapali Gupta

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some,…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until…

— Nikki Jean

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity…

— Dan Harmon

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part…

— Craig Johnson

I write about love so I can keep focused on the true goal: to be with my lady, lady and travel with…

— Masego

I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning; she…

— John Waters

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I've been spending quite a bit of time writing, acting, and making films. Because I'm doing all this extra writing, acting, and…

— John Morrison

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters…

— Justine Larbalestier

“Working alone definitely has its advantages. There was no need for second-guessing decisions or discussions on how to work more efficiently. When…

— Justine Castellon

No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually…

— Chuck Klosterman

When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something…

— Robert Downey Sr

“It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its…

— Thornton Wilder

“Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking…

— Stefanie Weisman

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

— Courtney Barnett

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

— Lillian Hellman

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

— Warren Littlefield

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

— Jerry Lewis

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.”

— Tracy Cooper-Posey

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

— Lisa Stansfield

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

“Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!”

— Marja Meijers

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

— Virginia Woolf

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

— Natalia Kills

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

— Elizabeth Fraser