Quotes of: Writing Keyword

Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, ...

Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...

Walter Mosley

You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with o...

Franz Kafka

Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I have closed my arms again. They must do without. To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb. Do not write! Do not write. Let us learn to die, as ...

Louis Simpson

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

Adam Driver

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Anthony Minghella

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Jonah Peretti

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

David Nicholls

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

Ellie Goulding

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Edward P. Jones

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

George Strait

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Gene Wolfe

I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.

Harley King

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Jose Saramago

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

E. L. Doctorow

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

Gay Talese

I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.

Judy Greer

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillmen...

Little Failure

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there w...

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments