Writing Quotes
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Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
Gerrit Noordzij
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
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I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.
Ryan Adams
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Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.
Ricky Jay
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
Etgar Keret
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
Haruki Murakami
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.
Carson McCullers
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
Carrie Fisher
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I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.
Cathy Horyn
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
Sara Gruen
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I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Judy Blume
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The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.
Chad Harbach
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
Sarah Dessen
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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
Etgar Keret
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
Sue Grafton
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Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
Michael Shannon
