Writing Quotes - page 20

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. (George Orwell)
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. View quote
George Orwell
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. View quote
Elmore Leonard
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure. View quote
Elmore Leonard
Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt. View quote
Rex Stout
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. View quote
Bill Hybels
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast? View quote
Charles Stross
I think my writing is part of my ministry. View quote
Robert Fulghum
If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. View quote
Bernard Malamud
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. (Tobias Smollett)
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject. View quote
Will Cuppy
I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon. View quote
William Thomas Beckford
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. View quote
Gene Wolfe
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. View quote
James A. Michener
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours. View quote
Jane Austen
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce. View quote
Claud Cockburn
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself. View quote
Chuck Klosterman
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads - that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business. View quote
George Gissing
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. (José Saramago)
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. View quote
Herta Müller
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished. View quote
Herta Müller