Writing Quotes · Page 626

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.”

— Sara Sheridan

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

— Joey Jordison

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

— Jay Neugeboren

“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”

— Haruki Murakami

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

— Alex Flinn

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to…

— Shane Black

“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate…

— Stephen King

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good…

— A. S. Byatt

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy…

— Warren Ellis

I love 'The Gospel Truth,' the song that opened up 'Hercules.' I thought that song was a lot of fun, and I…

— Alan Menken

I struggled a lot with English, with grammar. You write what you hear. Deaf people have to remember it and spell things…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that…

— A. E. van Vogt

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics…

— Bruno Mars

“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A…

— Judith Rich Harris

“He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lover, my confidant. But…

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work…

— Carlisle Floyd

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few…

— Frank Pierson

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just…

— Steve Toltz

If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their…

— Stephen King

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

“You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.”

— Jess Walter

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

— Ivy Lee

“I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!”

— Curlie Q. Link

“Readers read to escape from the world, Author's write to never have to go back to it again.”

— Chami Rupasinghe

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

— Vanessa Marano

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

— Katie Kitamura

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

— Jack Dempsey

“If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”

— Tom Robbins

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

— Syd

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante