Writing Quotes · Page 688

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

— Mark Lanegan

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred…

— Andrew Breitbart

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

— Derek Raymond

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd…

— Tavi Gevinson

“You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don’t mean what you say your words will not live…

— Jason E. Hodges

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George…

— Bill Vaughan

“I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They…

— Barbara Delinsky

Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has…

— Pico Iyer

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to…

— Sam Shepard

I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how…

— Steven Knight

I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is…

— Michael Scott

I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason.…

— Michael Tomasky

“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.…

— Charles Bukowski

“Now I ask you to consider writing from the inside, to convince yourself of your characters' dimensions before you attempt to narrate…

— Tin House Books

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

— Robert Anderson

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

— Joseph Haydn

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

— Mitch Glazer

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

“Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.”

— Jo Linsdell

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

— Sarah Ruhl

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

— Archibald MacLeish

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

— Tanya Saracho

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader ~ Robert Frost”

— Debbie Linger Chesnut