Writing Quotes · Page 589

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

— Joan D. Vinge

“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.”

— Rayne Hall

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

— Maxine Kumin

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

— Billy Bragg

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

— Mo Yan

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something…

— Charlaine Harris

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

— Jeff Kinney

I don't want my kids talked about. It's one of the reasons I thought that if I could just make a go…

— Harry Enfield

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when…

— Avril Lavigne

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me.…

— Robert Graves

“The supernatural, and all it represents, is profoundly abnormal, and therefore unreal. Few would argue with these conclusions. Fine. Now the highest…

— Thomas Ligotti

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think…

— Chinua Achebe

One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really…

— Kiese Laymon

“He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of…

— Hermann Hesse

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,…

— Sufjan Stevens

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved…

— Douglas Adams

“Wraeththu have been with me for the greater part of my life. My first rather ham-fisted (and half-finished) stories about them began…

— Storm Constantine

Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about…

— Karen Walton

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

— Justin Cronin

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

— Willie Morris

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

— Walter D. Wetherell

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

— Veronica Roth

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“I can live with you hating me," he said to the closed door. "I just can't live without you.”

— Julia Quinn

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.”

— Fierce Dolan

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

— Chuck Mangione

“Grammar is The Forbidden City of American writing.”

— Wade Hobbs

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

— Neil Gaiman