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Writing Quotes by John Green
- I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,…
- We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest…
- [This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are…
- When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how…
- Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling…
- Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,…
- Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's…
- Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my…
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or…
- What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or…
- This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you…
- I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you…
- Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
- Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
- Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't…
- I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go…
- I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they…
- That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
- Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us…
- Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
- I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
- The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the…
- I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And…
- In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
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