Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The Writing Life

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

The Writing Life

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

James Lasdun

Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

Natalie Morales

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

Mary Sage Nguyen

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.

Michael P. Naughton

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

Paul Haggis

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Patricia Marx

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

Peter Morgan

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Robert Harris

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

Rupert Holmes

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Sophie Marceau

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Salman Rushdie

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

Sara Shepard

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Serj Tankian

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

Tom Paulin

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck