Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

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

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

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

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

Lee Child

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

Leo Tolstoy

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Louis L'Amour

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Louisa May Alcott

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