Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Christopher Paolini

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

Nadia Ali

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Paul Westerberg

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Atonement

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

A letter is the most basic—yet the most flexible—mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter.

How to Write a Letter

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

Mark O'Donnell

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Nathalie Sarraute

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.

Nicole Sager

Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

Nirav Sanchaniya

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Octavia Butler

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

Paul Auster

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing... I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

P. Anastasia

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Pat Barker

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

Patti Davis

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Per Petterson

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Paul Schrader