Writing Quotes · Page 990

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone…

— Orville Prescott

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

— Karl Popper

Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.

— Lionel Shriver

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not…

— Alice Munro

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a…

— Ben Hecht

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we…

— Craig Finn

Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440…

— Ann Landers

There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put…

— Alison Sudol

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of…

— Chris Colfer

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending,…

— Drew Pinsky

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

— Dolly Parton

We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it…

— Peter Paige

“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.”

— Ron Brackin

“The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except…

— Nelson Algren

One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the…

— David Lowery

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

— Anatole France

“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination…

— John Irving

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

— Michael Connelly

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote…

— John le Carre

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

— Bill Bryson

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.

— Doris Lessing

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next…

— Tom Stoppard

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and…

— Rick Derringer

“I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and…

— John Steinbeck

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a…

— Shoojit Sircar

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the…

— Rumaan Alam

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write,…

— Anais Nin

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed…

— Nicholas Sparks

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof…

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being…

— El-P

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing…

— Robert Greene

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

— Helen Fielding

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

— Lou Reed