Writing Quotes · Page 681

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

— Peter De Vries

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

— Lance Bass

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

— Verite

My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. 'Apparently,…

— Gyles Brandreth

To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I…

— Peter Ackroyd

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then…

— Paul Kane

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It…

— Derek Walcott

“A writer isn’t a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't…

— Ice T

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know…

— Ernest Hemingway

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for…

— Anonymous

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald,…

— Jim Starlin

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress…

— Kamand Kojouri

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is…

— Bernard Cornwell

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock…

— Fran Lebowitz

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the…

— George Henry Lewes

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

— Paula Danziger

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

— George Jean Nathan

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

— Allen Wier

Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?

— William Shakespeare

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

— William Faulkner

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

— Edward Abbey

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

— N. K. Jemisin

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

— Thomas Paine

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

“The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.”

— Mark Bell

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.”

— Fred Leebron

“To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.”

— Heather McGowan