Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Peter Temple

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and because. The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Robert Hass

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Sue Grafton

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Spike Jonze

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Susan Orlean

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Salman Rushdie

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Sam Shepard

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

Stephen Stills

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.

Summer Sanders

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Susan Sontag

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

Stanley Tucci

I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together.

Subhan Zein

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

Theodora Goss

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Tanith Lee