Writing Quotes - page 4

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. (Mark Strand)
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. View quote
Mark Strand
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. View quote
James Gandolfini
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. View quote
Georgette Heyer
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. View quote
Ingeborg Bachmann
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important. View quote
Christopher A. Sims
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. View quote
Janet Frame
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. (Flannery O’Connor)
My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. View quote
John Grisham
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. View quote
John Adams
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. View quote
James Thurber
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. View quote
Georges Simenon
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. View quote
Shania Twain
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. View quote
Tennessee Williams
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. (Felix Frankfurter)
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. View quote
Theodor Adorno
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. View quote
Robert Frost
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing. View quote
Raymond Chandler