Writing Quotes
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
Virginia Woolf
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
Jennifer Egan
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
Alan Gabriel Barnsley
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It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.
Lisi Harrison
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I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.
Brian Kernighan
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I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.
James Marsh
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Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
Lynn Flewelling
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I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.
Jessica Lowndes
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
Jodie Foster
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I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.
Zal Batmanglij
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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
Peter Davison
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It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.
Marilynne Robinson
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Writing is something I can do by myself.
Peter Coyote
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I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.
Sarah Kay
