Writing Quotes on Words & Creativity – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Nicholas Sparks

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

Dick Cheney

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Nicholas Sparks

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Saul Bellow

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Caleb Cushing

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Ernest Hemingway

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Michael Chabon

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Minoru Yamasaki

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

Howard Nemerov

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Hugh Leonard

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Jerzy Kosinski

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Theodore Sturgeon

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Joseph Barbera

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Truman Capote

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Audre Lorde

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Nora Roberts

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Augusten Burroughs

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Samuel Beckett

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

John Sayles

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Emile M. Cioran

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

Morris West

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

Tobias Wolff

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Mohandas Gandhi

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

Nora Roberts

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Alexis de Tocqueville

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Leslie Fiedler

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Bernard Cornwell

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Naguib Mahfouz

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.

Pythagoras

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anais Nin

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir