Writing Quotes · Page 693

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

— Gordon Lish

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Steve Jackson is a born storyteller. He makes you sweat. . .and turn the page.

— Ron Franscell

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.

— Stan Lee

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

— Pete Townshend

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as…

— Will Shetterly

“I am a writer…a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never…

— Ey Wade

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I…

— Joseph Epstein

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a…

— William H. Macy

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say…

— Gore Vidal

“Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also.”

— Ashley Chunell

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to…

— Natalia Lafourcade

The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It…

— Elihu Palmer

I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on…

— Sarah Silverman

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens…

— Ernest Hemingway

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I…

— Gene Hackman

It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know…

— Jim Elliot

“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian…

— Timothy Keller

At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's…

— Shannon Purser

I've been working on some original songs with the band that does the Led Zeppelin experience. We're going to start writing as…

— Jason Bonham

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

I write for Reader's Digest. It's not hard. All you do is copy out an article and mail it in again.

— Milt Kamen

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

— Gail Honeyman

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

— J. B. Priestley

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

— Bill Watterson

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

— Taylor Swift

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

— Edward Steichen

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

— Jeffery Deaver

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

— Rick Ross

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

— Ian Gillan

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

— Ben Hecht

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

— Matt Drudge