Writing Quotes

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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
- Writing

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

Cullen Bunn
- Job
- Small
- College
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Marjane Satrapi
- Writing
- Drawing
I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.

Jenny Zhang
- Up
- Time
- Long
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

Chuck Klosterman
- People
- Book
- Distance
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.

Paul Auster
- Done
- Facts
- Fourth
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Paul Gauguin
- Poetry
- Special
- Painter