Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Jeffrey Archer

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Cyril Connolly

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Harry Mathews

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Larry Niven

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Margaret Atwood

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

Jeffery Deaver

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Len Wein

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

Rick Moody

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Anita Brookner

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Irwin Shaw

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Elias Canetti

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

Anne McCaffrey

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Don DeLillo

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Ralph Ellison

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

James Baldwin

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Leslie Fiedler

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Robertson Davies

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Andy Warhol

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

John Henry Newman

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Tony Snow

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

John Le Carre

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Don DeLillo

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Douglas Horton

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Lech Walesa

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy