Writing Quotes · Page 635

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

— Joseph Kanon

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

— Paul Buchheit

We write about everything; we are very honest when we write.

— Perrie Edwards

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”

— Dorothy Gallagher

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

— Edward Said

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

— James Richardson

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I…

— Ashley Tisdale

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we…

— Aime Cesaire

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like…

— Koren Zailckas

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's…

— Haruki Murakami

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion…

— Jane Leavy

I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and…

— Nadine Gordimer

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had…

— Xavier Dolan

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any…

— Christopher Dodd

I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I…

— Terry Pratchett

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And…

— Nora Ephron

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like…

— Ayana Mathis

“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century…

— Anonymous

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was…

— Ann Voskamp

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,…

— David Nicholls

Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you…

— Linda Perry

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal…

— Brad Thor

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

— Woody Allen

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to…

— Ann Patchett

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

— Gerald Brenan

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

— Rick Bragg

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

— Marvin Harris

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

— Anonymous

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

— David M. Evans

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

— Peter De Vries

“Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.”

— Elizabeth M. Lawrence

A house becomes a home when you can write, 'I love you' on the furniture.

— Rick Sutter

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

— Curt Schilling

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

— John Searles

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

— Lisel Mueller

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

— James Salter