Writing Quotes · Page 670

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

— Michael Pollan

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

— Jack London

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

— Tobias Lindholm

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

— Thomas Merton

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

— Sean Durkin

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

— Douglas McIlroy

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

— Ruskin Bond

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,…

— Dani Shapiro

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who…

— Grant Morrison

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the…

— Antony Beevor

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

— Blake Morrison

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

— Russell T Davies

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write…

— Yannis Philippakis

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to…

— James A. Baldwin

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing.…

— Quentin Tarantino

My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make…

— Debbie Macomber

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need…

— Nina Jean Slack

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual…

— Bruce Lee

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a…

— Neil Cross

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in…

— Samuel Johnson

“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the…

— Stephen King

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely…

— Margaret Atwood

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

— Larry Norman

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

— Bonnie McKee

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

— Jonathan Gold

I live and I write, and I write and I live. It's kind of just how I am.

— Laufey

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

— Cyril Connolly

“My favourite sound in the world — hearing your heart beat beat for my heart.”

— Timothy Joshua

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

— Stephen King

“A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

— John le Carre

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

— Joey Jordison

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.”

— Anonymous

“All writing is travel writing, it just depends which direction you are going.”

— Eric D. Lehman