Writing Quotes
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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
Brian Fallon
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People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
Steven Moffat
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I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Hilary Mantel
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I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
Lisa Unger
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My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.
Thomas Mallon
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For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.
Lisa Jewell
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
Ray Bradbury
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
Ishmael Reed
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
Joanne Rowling
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I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.
Amy Koppelman
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I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.
Daniel Mendelsohn
