Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anais Nin

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Phillips Brooks

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

John Kricfalusi

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Jessica Savitch

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Jim Harrison

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

George Ade

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Jose Saramago

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

Sidney Sheldon

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Jeffery Deaver

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Robert Smithson

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Wole Soyinka

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

Jack Vance

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Peter De Vries

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

Walter Hill

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Lloyd Alexander

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Theodore Sturgeon

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Saint Augustine

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Irwin Shaw

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Jeffery Deaver

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Jeanette Winterson

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Orson Scott Card

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Theodore Sturgeon

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Charles Kuralt

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Don DeLillo

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Ken Thompson

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Stephen Sondheim

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Raymond Chandler

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Raymond Chandler

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Nicholas Sparks

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Don Marquis

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.