Quotes About Writing

The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

Tears ran down my mother's cheeks and dripped loudly onto the leather purse she held in her lap. The woman next to her patted her hand. I slipped my notepad from my jacket pocket and began scribbling notes to one side until my mother slapped her hand on mine and hissed, "You are being disrespectful and embarrassing. Stop or I will make you leave." I quit writing but kept the pad out, feeling stabbingly defiant. But still blushing.

I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, How do you write a book? The answer is, you just write.

a time when newly graduated college kids could come to New York and get paid to write. We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.

Mom, you are the most gracious, generous person I know and someday I will write a book in which the mother is not a) evil or b) killed.

Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word—WRITER—anytime

To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan smile, I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

To show don't tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan

A male author can write about unlikable male characters. They're called anti-heroes and it's called a novel.

I created a manuscript, and she created a life. I

in the late '90s, the last gasp of the glory days, although no one knew it then. New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world—throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night.

Thanks to George R. R. Martin, who asked me to write him a story.

Her family had long had a sense of history and understood that what was not written down might almost not have existed. The Stephens and Pattles...understood the value of old pieces of paper covered in handwriting.

As a writer, I roll around in words the way cats roll around in catnip.

Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.

non sempre si riesce a guardarsi dentro fino in fondo, e quando lo si fa è difficile e scomodo scrivere quel che si è visto.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The occasional nature of the Epistles also means that they are not first of all theological treatises; they are not compendia of Paul's or Peter's theology. There is theology implied, but it is always task theology, theology being written for or brought to bear on the task at hand.

GORDON KORMAN wrote his first book at age fourteen

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.