Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Seamus Heaney

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Kate Adie

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

John Le Carre

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Thomas Malthus

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Henry James

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Jerry Pournelle

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anatole Broyard

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

Shel Silverstein

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Gustave Flaubert

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Mickey Spillane

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Margaret Mahy

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

David Herbert Lawrence

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Anne Tyler

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Terry Brooks

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Nadine Gordimer

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Marianne Moore

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

John Adams

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

John Irving

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Ken Follett

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Armistead Maupin

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

Stephen Cambone

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Sara Teasdale

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Jonathan Carroll

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Jerzy Kosinski

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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