Writing Quotes - page 9

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. (Meg Wolitzer)

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

Penelope Lively

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

Penelope Lively

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Penelope Lively

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

Richard Price

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

Sam Shepard

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Sarah Zettel

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

Sarah Zettel

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Stephen Ambrose

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. (Stephen Greenblatt)

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Stephen Greenblatt

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Tom Perrotta

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Francesca Lia Block

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Barry Gibb

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

Brian Selznick

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

Brian Selznick

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Graham Brown

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

David Almond

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Jane Smiley

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

John Thomas Sladek

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