Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Joss Whedon

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Joss Whedon

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Joss Whedon

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

Joss Whedon

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Jules Renard

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Jules Renard

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

Julia Quinn

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Julia Quinn

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Julio Cortázar

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Junot Díaz

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Kingsley Amis

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

Lang Leav

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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