Writing Quotes · Page 675

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.

— Lauren Bacall

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

— Stephen McCauley

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

— Edna Ferber

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

— Dorothy Parker

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

— Shel Silverstein

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

“One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing—and reading. Reading good books written by real artists—until…

— Truman Capote

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

— Seamus Heaney

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in…

— Liu Cixin

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

— Divya Dutta

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ...…

— George R. R. Martin

When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another,…

— Alain de Botton

The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the…

— Daniel Suarez

“It [writing] has enormous meta-cognitive implications. The power is this: That you cannot only think in ways that you could not possibly…

— John R. Searle

“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the…

— C. JoyBell C

“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I…

— Patti Smith

When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You…

— Cupcakke

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to…

— Lorin Stein

“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in…

— Anne Lamott

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

— Yungblud

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

— Melissa McCarthy

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

— Amos Lee

“It doesn’t matter to me whether it’s published or not. I’m enjoying writing it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more,

— Will Smith

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

“you have write that not some imagine that cause on write that you can make anyone feel it...”

— Tary

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

— Rex Stout

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!

— Ludwig Boltzmann

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

— Tom Stoppard

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

— Robert Ben Garant

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

— Virginia Woolf

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

— James Ellroy

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

— Jill Barnett

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

— Adam Duritz