Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.
Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks.
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.