All Quotes

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
‐‐ Martin Mull

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.
‐‐ Mary Karr

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.
‐‐ Akhil Sharma

Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.
‐‐ Catherine Tate

Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.
‐‐ Susan Minot

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
‐‐ Ryan Adams

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
‐‐ Nicholas Jarecki

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Writing and Painting are the same for me.
‐‐ Peter Malkin

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
‐‐ Robin Hobb

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
‐‐ Michelle Shocked

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
‐‐ Daniel Pinkwater

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.
‐‐ Judy Collins

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
‐‐ Leon Uris

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
‐‐ David Guterson

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
‐‐ Joanne Harris

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
‐‐ Allan Guthrie

Writing bores me so.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
‐‐ Aimee Bender

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
‐‐ R. A. Salvatore

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
‐‐ D. B. Weiss

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
‐‐ Paul Kane

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
‐‐ Becca Fitzpatrick

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
‐‐ John Barton

Writing can't be taught.
‐‐ Susanna Moore

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick