Writing Quotes · Page 570

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

“That's what lifts us up, us writers: we have our imagination, if nothing else.”

— M. Beth Bloom

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

— Virginia Woolf

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

— Robert Frost

“Somtimes its good to close control because that’s one of ways to understand that we were going in the wrong direction.”

— Jawedquotes

“I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for…

— William Somerset Maugham

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real…

— Tobias Wolff

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories…

— Satyajit Ray

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but…

— Cynthia Ozick

“There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that…

— Richard Paul Evans

I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen…

— Lady Gaga

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate…

— Julie Ann Emery

“Unless you write yourself, you can’t know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldn’t draw,…

— Anne Frank

Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously…

— Cyra McFadden

Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and…

— A.L. Kennedy

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically…

— Tom Wolfe

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than…

— Anthony Hecht

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and…

— John Taylor Gatto

“I’m always thrilled,” wrote Alan Cheuse, emphasizing the novelty and, perhaps, the faint air of slumming that attends the notion of McCarthy’s…

— Michael Chabon

You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in…

— Wanda Sykes

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

— Pat Conroy

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

“Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.”

— Kamal Ravikant

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

— Zosia Mamet

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“hand writing has been shown to form stronger neural connections.”

— Jennifer April

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

— Lee Ranaldo

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

— Big K.R.I.T

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

— Robert Benchley

“Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.”

— Mallika Tripathi

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

“will you be the one reading the book or writing the book”

— Abe

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

— Leo Tolstoy