Writing Quotes · Page 632

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

— Ann Patchett

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

— Poppy Z. Brite

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

— Doris Lessing

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

— John D. MacDonald

There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

— Khaled Hosseini

“A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell”

— Anonymous

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

— Jacqueline Susann

“No I try and set my books in lots of different locales. Variety is the spice of life!”

— Cathy Williams

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know,…

— Vincente Minnelli

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and…

— Nick Cave

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

— Rick Bragg

“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”

— Jill Telford

“British writer G. K. Chesterton’s reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject “What’s Wrong with…

— Dale Carnegie

“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all…

— robert m drake

“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think…

— David Foster Wallace

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of…

— Lew Wallace

Wambaugh's naturalistic portrait of the cop world turned 'Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' (1972) into bestsellers, but his next two books made…

— Sarah Weinman

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction…

— Jami Attenberg

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…

— George R. R. Martin

Because I've spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I've gained - and am still…

— Stan Lee

“Stories are bulls. Writers come of age full of vigor, and they feel the need to drive the old stories from the…

— Jess Walter

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also…

— Tony Kushner

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

— Janet Evanovich

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.

— Jessica Sorensen

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

— Christian McKay

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

— Anonymous

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

— Debbie Millman

“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”

— robert m drake

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

— Mat Kearney

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

— Virginia Woolf

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

— Paul Auster

There were times in the writing of Ninth House' where I thought, have I gone too far?'

— Leigh Bardugo

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Books are uniquely portable magic. By Stephen King”

— Reggi allderr