Writing Quotes

• I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

  

  Jonathan Dee
  • Writing
  • Talent
  • Endings

• If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • People
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

  

  Rachael Yamagata
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Hours

• ...in October 1866 I broke out as a lecturer, and from that day to this I have always been able to gain my living without doing any work; for the writing of books and magazine matter was always play, not work. I enjoyed it; it was merely billiards to me.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • Writing
  • October

• Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Professional

• I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Character
  • Feelings
  • Photography

• I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Writing
  • Tempted

• I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Character
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Lonely
  • Stature

• I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Writing

• The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Pleasure

• I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to me. The marketing, segmenting etc., can be done by your publisher, not you.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • People
  • Heart
  • Done

• I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Different
  • Writing

• The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Writing

• Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Writing
  • Country

• If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

  

  Erica Brown
  • Worth
  • Ourselves
  • Go Into

• I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Writing
  • Moral

• I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Learning

• I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Book
  • House
  • Dark

• I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Mind
  • Critics

• I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Writing

• If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

  

  John Irving
  • Writing
  • Attention

• I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

  

  Alejandro Zambra
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Doubts

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