Writing Quotes · Page 98

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

— Dorothea Brande

“Concering the power of the written word”

— Julie Hearn

I usually move to wherever I'm writing about.

— Robert Graysmith

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

— John Gimlette

I always write a story in one sitting.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Once You're Finished Writing, You've Just Begun.

— Anonymous

“I consider writing as a complement to who I am”

— MBarreto Condado

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

— Ben Jonson

“I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!”

— Curlie Q. Link

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

— Anonymous

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

— Lexi Alexander

“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

— Harold Nicolson

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze…

— David Nicholls

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the…

— Kate Tempest

You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's…

— James Murray

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be…

— Anne Bronte

“Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you…

— Chris Baty

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love…

— Nicholas Sparks

I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own…

— James Anthony Froude

“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of…

— Roberto Bolaño

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,…

— William Strunk, Jr

I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,…

— Julie Klassen

From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to…

— Garry Disher

When I was writing my first novel a friend told me I should apply for a grant from the government that was…

— Vince Flynn

“I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in…

— Leo Tolstoy

When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a…

— Nick Offerman

“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”

— Amaya Ellman

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

— Ida B. Wells

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

— Lewis Black

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

— Oliver North

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

— Sasha Velour

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

— Henry Fielding

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

— Jonathan Carroll