Quotes about Writing, page 6

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Quote by Piers Anthony about writing

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Quote by Piers Anthony about writing

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

Quote by Edna Ferber about writing

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Quote by André Breton about writing

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

Quote by Claude Simon about writing

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Quote by Harold Pinter about writing

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about writing

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Quote by Georges Bizet about writing

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Quote by Haruki Murakami about writing

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

Quote by Molière about writing

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Quote by Rebecca West about writing

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa about writing

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Quote by Robert Charles Benchley about writing

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about writing

Write what you know is an excellent advice, but I'd also add: write only if you really cannot help it.

Quote by Toma Pavel about writing

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Quote by Anne Rice about writing

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Quote by Irwin Shaw about writing

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Quote by Irwin Shaw about writing

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about writing

What can I write for you to like me? All great words were already said before. Better I keep my silence.

Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about writing