Writing Quotes · Page 597

“If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility.”

— Richard Luciano

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.”

— Candace Bowen Early

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

— Fred Saberhagen

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

— Ian Lurie

When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing.

— Kenny Omega

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

— Josh Lieb

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

— Langston Hughes

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

— Anne Tyler

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the…

— Vita Sackville-West

Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing.

— Steven Rinella

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to…

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being…

— Denny Laine

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's…

— Anne Lamott

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

— Laura Nyro

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic…

— William Blaikie

“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious.…

— Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If…

— Ben Hecht

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's…

— Lauren Mayberry

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's…

— E. L. Doctorow

I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who…

— Yoweri Museveni

I never wanted to write about Bulgaria. When I was still living there I did my absolute best to never write a…

— Miroslav Penkov

“What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past. What you write today, will be echoed in the future.”

— Toba Beta

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

— Alison Brie

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

— Anonymous

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

— Julian Barnes

Forever prepared to bleed what resembles my soul, bloody black ink.

— Needa Muy

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

— Amitava Kumar

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

— Hallie Ephron

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

— Pamela Stephenson

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

— Nick Cave