Writing Quotes

• Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Reading

• What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Writing

• I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Familiar

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Running

• Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Writing
  • Concentrate
  • Anonymity

• Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Writing
  • Publish

• Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Intuition

• I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Writing
  • Pain

• Writing, for me, is a search for God.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Writing

• You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Way
  • Waiting
  • Stories

• When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

  

  Enrique Jardiel Poncela
  • Writing
  • Effort
  • Read

• If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

  

  Walter Damrosch
  • Young
  • Musical
  • Symphony

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