Writing Quotes · Page 587

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

— Rebecca Serle

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

— Albert Einstein

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

— Tom King

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

— Alice Mattison

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those…

— John Berger

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself…

— John Zorn

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

— T. J. Miller

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha…

— Jack Kerouac

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,…

— William Cowper

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in…

— Gore Vidal

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just…

— Astrid S

“It's the witching hour once more- When the Muse comes out to play. He calls me through that magic door- Where galaxies…

— Belle Whittington

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people…

— Joan Didion

But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in…

— Charles Dance

Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,…

— Olaf Tyaransen

I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it…

— Kate Christensen

“Discovering Distilled Creativity "Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance…

— Sandra Sealy

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you…

— Frederick Busch

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person…

— William Zinsser

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was…

— Elif Batuman

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

— Isaac Asimov

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

— Marilynne Robinson

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

— Meg Rosoff

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,

— P. W. Singer

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

— Edward P. Jones

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

— Neil Simon

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

— William Shakespeare

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

— Lindsay Lohan

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

— Robert Graves

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

— Stephen J. Cannell

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

— Paul Theroux

“Orafoura told me my writing is all nonsense. “Nonsense,” I replied. “Glad you agree, “ he said.”

— Jarod Kintz

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs

— Ann Landers