Own Writing Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

• Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust… — Rosemary Daniell
• One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. — John Berryman
• I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf
• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of… — Eddie Vedder
• I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to… — Margaret Mahy
• Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. — Kevin Powers
• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification… — Amy Waldman
• I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis
• I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around. — Andy Gibb
• In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq
• I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing… — Charles de Lint
• Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life.… — Erica Jong
• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
• I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. — Alice Walker
• I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound… — Gustave Flaubert
• At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing… — Doris Lessing
• I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This… — Pat Conroy
• I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing,… — Julia Glass
• Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it. — Christopher McQuarrie

Who Wrote These Own Writing Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 25 Own Writing Quotes as follows:

• 1 Own Writing Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Doris Lessing
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Julia Glass
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Christopher McQuarrie
• 1 Own Writing Quote by John Updike
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Donald McKay
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Robert Morgan
• 1 Own Writing Quote by HOttieDeviL
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Rosemary Daniell
• 1 Own Writing Quote by John Berryman
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Eddie Vedder
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Margaret Mahy
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Kevin Powers
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Amy Waldman
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Lydia Davis
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Andy Gibb
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Michel Houellebecq
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Charles de Lint
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Erica Jong
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Flannery O'Connor
• 1 Own Writing Quote by Alice Walker