Top 1200 Writing From Famous Authors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in the details of destruction and decay.

I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.

If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences in what I call 'civilians' and 'authors' is that we have an antenna hat buzzing all the time.

Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.