Writing Quotes · Page 623

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

— Neil Gaiman

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

— Terry Brooks

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

— Vanna Bonta

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

— Lionel Shriver

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

— Mark Twain

“So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph”

— Mahmoud Darwish

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

— Alvin Ailey

“Individual guarantees stated in writing in the constitution are of no use to a nation if it is not the people, but…

— Faustino Ballve

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary…

— Tim Cahill

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they…

— Kate Bush

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in…

— Rachel Kushner

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become…

— Jennifer Egan

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn…

— Alejandro Zambra

These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all…

— Michael Ventura

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass…

— Wilford Woodruff

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With…

— Diablo Cody

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In…

— Naomi Oreskes

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and…

— Michael Piller

“The final option to have your book completed is to hire a ghost writer. The challenge with this option is that it…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.”

— Steven Pressfield

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

— Truman Capote

“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

— Anne Sexton

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

— Lorrie Moore

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

— Khaled Hosseini

“I write like I make love: alone in my bathtub, as I let the fantasy overflow and wash over me.”

— Jarod Kintz

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Before twitter, I used to write all this shit down on Post-It notes and leave them around the city.

— Nikhil Saluja

I read tons of comic books. My favourite is Grant Morrison, a Scottish comic writer.

— Frankie Boyle

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”

— Glen Duncan

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“Writing your own qoutes is like you started writing your history.”

— Evan Ricafort

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

— Nick Symmonds

“Description is the color in the canvas of your story.”

— M. Kirin