Writing Quotes · Page 601

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

— Gautham Menon

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

— Wole Soyinka

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

— Lynda Barry

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

— Tanya Saracho

“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.”

— Julie Wright

“We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.”

— Kevin Fuller

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive,…

— Naomi Watts

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

— Christopher Buckley

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more…

— Derek Bok

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance…

— Nahnatchka Khan

“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults…

— Sorin Suciu

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing…

— Matt Groening

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love…

— Coco Jones

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency…

— Bran Ferren

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological…

— J. C. Ryle

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed…

— Ngaio Marsh

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,…

— Allen Ginsberg

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something…

— Shane McCrae

It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my…

— Mary Oliver

“That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to…

— Julian Barnes

Public disapproval is the price I pay for writing about the royals.

— Penny Junor

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

— Aparna Sen

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

— Richard Peck

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

— Lynn Nottage

“Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“Having the courage to say the truth, unabashedly, is the hardest part of writing.”

— Carolyn Moncel

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

— Carl Reiner

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

— Rachel Cusk

“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.”

— Dana George

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make

— Antony Beevor

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

— Kathryn Harrison

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

— Ian Rankin

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

— Marilynne Robinson

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles

“You are all the poetry I have written all the words I know I've heard”

— Tyler Kent White