Writing Quotes · Page 654

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

— Gordon Lish

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

— Stan Lee

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

— Ron Franscell

“breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My”

— Marcel Proust

When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe.

— Diana Gabaldon

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to…

— Tobias Wolff

“I suggest that you become a writer to reduce the cumbersomeness of talking to many people individually, but with books you can…

— Nicholas Hawkins

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive…

— Troye Sivan

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and…

— George Michael

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she…

— Mary Gauthier

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or…

— Chad Harbach

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not…

— Meg Cabot

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be…

— Thomas Jefferson

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just…

— Joel Stein

Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was,…

— Lynn Coady

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After…

— Russell Baker

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There…

— James Franco

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.…

— Gabriela Mistral

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

— Atul Gawande

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

— Michael Gartner

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

— Alison Bechdel

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

“Reading is the best medicine, writing is the best cure.”

— Ksenia Anske

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

— T. J. Miller

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

— Stephen King

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

— John Steinbeck