Writing Quotes · Page 673

“To say we know a person is to write that person off.”

— Yiyun Li

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

— Ray Bradbury

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

— Rosemary Wells

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.”

— James Gough

Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down.

— Paul Mullin

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform…

— Jeanette Winterson

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know,…

— John Steinbeck

Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music,…

— Lights

William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

— Robert Twigger

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it…

— Julie Davis

The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape…

— Christopher Priest

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a…

— Anita Shreve

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the…

— David Henrie

In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good…

— Woody Allen

I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me.…

— Michael Ventura

“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase…

— Lewis Carroll

When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I…

— Jami Floyd

“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words, “Dear God, life is hell.” Nothing led up…

— J.D. Salinger

The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They…

— Mark Canton

The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one…

— Marcy Dermansky

When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that…

— Flannery O'Connor

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

— Allison Joseph

“A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?”

— Mary Papas

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

— Andy Biersack

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

— Peg Bracken

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

— Anonymous

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

— William Stafford

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

— Tabitha King

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

— Terry Pratchett

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

— Ernest Gaines

“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.”

— Arianna Huffington

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

— Jon Hamm

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

— Samuel Eliot Morison

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

— John Milius

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

— Kate Atkinson