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Writing Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
- Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I…
- Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
- The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then…
- In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
- Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
- I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the…
- I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but…
- Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do…
- No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov