Writing Quotes · Page 568

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

— H. L. Mencken

Email has explosively supported the growth of letter writing globally.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.”

— Donald Miller

“There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.”

— Ariel Levy

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells…

— Haruki Murakami

I wanted to become a better songwriter, so it seemed like a no-brainer to move to Nashville, where some of the best…

— Maren Morris

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they…

— Ayn Rand

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of…

— Jay McInerney

“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau”

— Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

— Gerry Mulligan

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I…

— Jonathan Lethem

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs…

— Penn Jillette

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and…

— Richard Brautigan

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I keep a journal. I like myself better when I just pour it out. It's easier sometimes, even if you write on…

— Fergie

My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some…

— Mark Powell

I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.…

— Francisco Goldman

I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have…

— John Lanchester

“Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginning, middle, end. I don’t…

— Dorothy Allison

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

— Michael Rostovtzeff

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

— John Lennon

Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around.

— Elizabeth Shaw Melville

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

— Howard Nemerov

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

— Young-Ha Kim

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

— Colum McCann

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

— Billy Strayhorn

Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I've written a Manifesto. It's all in the Manifesto!

— Theodore Kaczynski

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody.

— Ludwig Goransson