Writing Quotes

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Ray Bradbury

Everything, Down, Off

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven Wright

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham

Three, Knows, Rules

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Someone, Easy

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

Drunk, Reality, Cannot

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Reading, Ready, Full

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

Hope, Freedom, Laugh

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury

Change, Art, Science

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Time, Political, Speech

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo Coelho

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Career, Matter

Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
Ray Bradbury

While, Favorite, Cat

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron

Care, Acceptance, Down

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Dignity, Race, Prosper

All of my writing is God-given.
Ray Bradbury

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

Labor, Idleness, Dreadful

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hard, Easy, Reading

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King

Life, Time, Good

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Morning, Saying, Give

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere

Love, Money, Friends

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice Walker

Money, Yourself, Long

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good, Water, Swimming

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

Music, Greatest, Words

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling

Old, Keep, Wanted

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
Chuck Palahniuk

Done, Seems, Model

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

Someone, Real, Joy

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

Art, True, Learned

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov

Thinking, Through, Simply

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Why, Reason, Lives

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