Writing Quotes · Page 627

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

— Toni Morrison

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

— Harold Nicolson

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

— Lexi Alexander

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

— Anonymous

“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues…

— Roman Payne

“She had a habit of walking around in white cotton panties and writing poetry on the back of crumpled envelopes.”

— Michael Faudet

“It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except,…

— Stella Gibbons

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

— Sharon Van Etten

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I…

— Maggie O'Farrell

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes…

— Tess Gerritsen

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk…

— Pattiann Rogers

I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the…

— Laura Lippman

Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really…

— William Wallace Cook

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but…

— William T. Vollmann

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;…

— Samuel Johnson

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than…

— Ernest Hemingway

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things…

— Miles Davis

It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all.…

— Frederick Lenz

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

— Enzo Amore

Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Jake's hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted.”

— Kelly Link

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

— Lev Grossman

“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.”

— Deva Arani

I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.

— Denis Norden

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

— Edward Abbey

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

— Gustave Flaubert

“To the stars, with regards, I write. The sea has called you home.”

— P.d. Vulpe

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

— Nadine Gordimer

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

— William Cowper

If I had a girlfriend I would write her letters instead of using Twitter.

— Bill Kaulitz

“I wanted to write you a short letter but I hadnt time…so I wrote you a long one..”

— Conor Lynch

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

— Bonnie McKee