Writing Quotes · Page 599

“Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.”

— John R. Erickson

I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but maybe also a book.

— Mukul Dev

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,

— Laura Linney

“The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman”

— Lisa Barr

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

My writers on 'Liv And Maddie' have started a running joke to try and sneak as many 'literally's into the script as…

— Dove Cameron

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put…

— Natalie Imbruglia

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to…

— Joseph Addison

The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill…

— Gillian Flynn

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I…

— Meg Cabot

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

— Denis Leary

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way:…

— Sam Shepard

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr.…

— Jim Bakker

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection,…

— Sonia Rykiel

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than…

— Manu Joseph

The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave…

— Barbara Corcoran

“Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't…

— Sarah Cross

When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain…

— Arcangela Tarabotti

Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented…

— Kat Timpf

I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are…

— William Fitzsimmons

“So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together.…

— Meg Rosoff

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

— Henry Petroski

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge.

— Emily Giffin

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

— Junot Diaz

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

— Bill Haley

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

— Mika

“trace me, then write things where your fingers stop”

— ehddah

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.

— Rosario Castellanos

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

— Mickey Spillane