Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Kathy Reichs

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Amanda Peet

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

Evan Williams

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Horace

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

Mary Karr

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

Matthew Nable

On a good day I write, all day.

Nick Flynn

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

David Javerbaum

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Lorrie Moore

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Anne Lamott

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Siri Hustvedt

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Ezra Pound

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Ed Westwick

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Francoise Sagan

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Franz Wright

A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

Grant Achatz

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Cary Fukunaga

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Carmen Laforet

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

Colum McCann