"Writing" quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

Sympathy

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

Ann Rule

Research

Writing

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

Mercedes Ruehl

Writing

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

Judith Rossner

Work

Writing

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Isaac Rosenberg