Writing Quotes · Page 677

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

— Jef Mallett

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

— Sarah Schulman

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

— Anthony Trollope

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

— Denis Norden

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about…

— Luke Temple

“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.”

— Nancy LaRonda Johnson

“Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people…

— Kristen Tracy

“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous…

— Russell Shorto

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you…

— Jon Spaihts

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that.…

— Rod Stewart

“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the…

— Philip Roth

My every quotes is has been Sharpnessfull,, my writings are dipped in poison, thanks for your this compliment,, it is your impression…

— Mak_786

The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in…

— Aminatta Forna

I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more…

— David Massengill

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing…

— Stephen J. Cannell

The re-releases have more than doubled the amount of Led Zeppelin work out there. I wanted it done authoritatively, 'cause I was…

— Jimmy Page

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I…

— William Finnegan

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the…

— Jerome Bruner

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

— Jean M. Auel

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.

— Caroline Leavitt

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

— Kanye West

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

— Chris Isaak

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

— Michel de Montaigne

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

— Haruki Murakami

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

— Stephen King

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

— Jon Katz

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

— Jacqueline Susann

“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.”

— Rudy Francisco

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

— Ellen Gallagher

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

— Roseanne Barr