Writing Quotes · Page 569

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— Colson Whitehead

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

— John Grisham

“I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.”

— Turcois Ominek

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen

“Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.” —TESS LYNCH, WRITER, GENTLEWOMAN, AND ESSAYIST”

— Pam Grout

“He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it.”

— R.G. Alexander

“I like to read them and write them," I say shyly. Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.”

— Willow Aster

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

— Colin Hay

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a…

— Edward P. Jones

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

— David Foster Wallace

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I…

— Nicole Krauss

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in…

— Stephen Sondheim

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

— Steve Toltz

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer…

— Herman Melville

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

— Nick Hornby

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book…

— Karl Barth

If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into…

— Roger E. Olson

Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,…

— William Boyd

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of…

— Joel Coen

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done…

— Kate Braverman

Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This…

— Don Pendleton

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink…

— Walter Murch

For me, I didn't really have family that was in entertainment. I didn't really grow up with an uncle that's a TV…

— Jaboukie Young-White

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

— Nikki Giovanni

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

— Paris Hilton

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

— Kevin Parker

“Sometimes the story is still missing because it's still waiting to be written.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.”

— Benjamin Percy

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

— Ernest Hemingway

I just did what any writer does, tried to listen to the characters, whether they're 18 or 80.

— Ol Parker

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

— Linda Tripp

I like having written better than I like having acted.

— Carrie Fisher

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl

— Louis Walsh

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

— Chris Isaak

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

— Anonymous

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

— Margaret Fuller

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri