Jane Green Quotes
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.Jane Green
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
Hannah Murray -
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw -
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes -
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
Kate Atkinson -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw -
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross -
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
Ian Mcewan -
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor -
It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
Halsey -
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar -
I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
Floyd Skloot
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When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.
Anne-Marie -
When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.
Mary Elizabeth Lease -
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
Will Self -
What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?
Emilia Wickstead -
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.
Meg Cabot -
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
Jane Green