Writing Quotes · Page 603

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

— Carl Hiaasen

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

— Harper Lee

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

— Barry B. Longyear

“God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.”

— Rick Anderson

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

Behind every drama is a good story...behind every tear is the person who wrote it

— Faye Hall

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

— Darby Conley

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

— Bruce Jackson

I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked…

— Michael Hirst

“Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold…

— Donald Trump

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much…

— Raymond Pettibon

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to…

— Halle Berry

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest…

— John Ruskin

“Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there.…

— Peter Gould

“She logged in and read a few of her old posts, smiling at the issues she had raged about and shaking her…

— Shweta Ganesh Kumar

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to…

— Kate Tempest

I think it's good for the fans, as well, because they get to connect with you directly. You know, in the old…

— James Wan

I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been…

— Zach Anner

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions,…

— Daniel Okrent

“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the…

— Stephen King

“As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is…

— Jane Austen

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

— Taylor Momsen

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

— Isak Dinesen

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

— Kate DiCamillo

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

— Marty Nemko

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

— Haruki Murakami

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

— Zadie Smith

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

— Malcolm Cowley

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

— Alan Moore

I'm never really thinking about other people when I'm writing.

— Gracie Abrams

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there.

— Arthur Bradford

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my…

— Tom Lehrer