Writing Quotes

• I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • Book
  • Leaving

• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • Writing
  • Question

• Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Thinking
  • Fear
  • Dying

• Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

  

  Johanna Lindsey
  • Writing
  • Age

• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Way
  • Pieces
  • Scrapbooking

• Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • War
  • Together
  • Government

• The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Writing
  • Career

• When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Quality

• I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

  

  Claudia Lee
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Writing
  • Purpose
  • Understanding

• Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Writing

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Grass

• Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Fragile
  • Solid

• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Girl
  • Fishing
  • Letters

• I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.

  

  Gavin Friday
  • Writing
  • Depends
  • Performer

• Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Interesting
  • Funny
  • Water

• I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Experience

• When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

  

  James Thurber
  • Writing

• When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Writing
  • Worry

• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Death
  • Enough
  • Stories

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