Writing Quotes

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Bad spellers of the world untie!

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.