Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

Charles King

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Calvin Trillin

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.

Irwin Shaw

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

John Cleese

Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.

Debasish Mridha

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Dav Pilkey

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Brendon Urie

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Bill Walsh

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

Chris Van Allsburg

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

Gavin Rossdale

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

Harlan Coben

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

Hill Harper

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

James Russell Lowell

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

John Oliver

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips