Writing Quotes

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Jonathan Lethem
- Writing
- Energy
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.

Chuck Klosterman
- People
- Movie
- Film
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.

Jesmyn Ward
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

Felix Dennis
- Up
- Different
- Start
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

Laura Marling
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Randy Houser
- Writing
- Remember
- Guitar
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Carl Honore
- World
- Writing
- Journalism