Writing Quotes · Page 625

“What are you thinking about?" "Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

— Carol Tavris

I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

— Emily Dickinson

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

— Michael Connelly

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

— Enzo Amore

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be…

— Robert Frost

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it…

— N. T. Wright

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has…

— Alexa Chung

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

— E. B. White

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

— Italo Calvino

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape…

— Henry Louis Gates

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with…

— Tina St. John

“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments,…

— Lautréamont

I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I…

— David Finch

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys,…

— Andy Biersack

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…

— Rudolf Flesch

'Quantum of Solace' was a bit of a different circumstance than a lot of my other films because you're stepping into a…

— Marc Forster

I have never successfully written in the third person. If there's a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed…

— Adam Rapp

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up…

— Akira Kurosawa

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did…

— Martin Luther

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

— Will Shetterly

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

— Karl Kraus

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

— John Prine

“Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but”

— J.D. Vance

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

— Jane Austen

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

— Endre Szemeredi

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

— Charles Bock

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

— Joanna Southcott

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

— William Zinsser

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

— Wallace Stevens

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

— Judy Blume

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”

— Laura Goode

“People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson