Writing Quotes · Page 667

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

— John Edensor Littlewood

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

— Jess Row

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)”

— Anton Chekhov

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and…

— Andre Maurois

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the…

— Haruki Murakami

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing…

— Megan Chance

I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

— Jacques Barzun

“Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.”

— Jarod Kintz

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

The Internet is the best and worst thing to happen to writing. It makes it so easy to quickly satisfy a lot…

— Myriam Gurba

“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes…

— A.J. Jacobs

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the…

— Atul Gawande

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.…

— Alan Moore

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad…

— David Ogilvy

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted…

— Joss Whedon

A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite…

— Rhianna Pratchett

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am…

— Lois Lowry

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.

— Rebecca Serle

“You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”

— Shirley B. Garrett

I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

— Ashwin Sanghi

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.

— Mick Hucknall

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

— Patrick Dennis

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

— Leni Zumas

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

— Doris Betts

“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.”

— C.G. Coppola