Best Writing Quotes
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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves
— Bill Anderson
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
— James Russell Lowell
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
— Roxane Gay
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
— Nadine Gordimer
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
— Aaron Shepard
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
— Stephen King
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
— Doris Lessing
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing,
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you. — Larry L. King
is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you. — Larry L. King
There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.
— Varric Tethras
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
— Michael Stutz
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
— William Faulkner
What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it. — Rick Riordan
Finishing it. — Rick Riordan
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
— Nell Freudenberger
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
— Fran Lebowitz
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
— Shannon L. Alder
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
— Arthur Miller
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
— Stephen Malkmus
I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
— Norm MacDonald
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.
— Solomon Woytowich
This is the best time to be an author.
— Geraldine Solon
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
— Neil Gaiman
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
— Stephen King
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
— Russell Banks
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
— Nuruddin Farah
Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
— Randall Jarrell
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
— Christopher Buckley
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
— Jennifer Weiner
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
— George Berkeley
It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.
— Avril Lavigne
Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.
— Lara Biyuts
My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.
— Lyle Kessler
Revenge is a dish best served published!
— Lisa Kovanda
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
— Walt Whitman
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
— Richard Armour
Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you.
— Catherine Bailey
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
— Brian A. McBride
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big.
— Anthony Shadid
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.
— Victoria Laurie
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
— Manuel Rivas
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
— Rupert Brooke
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
— Brian Helgeland
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.
— Alan W. Harris
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
— Aldous Huxley
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
— Michael Scott
My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it.
— Carla H. Krueger
The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader.
— Steve Dunham
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
— Jared Diamond
Writers will happen in the best of families.
— Rita Mae Brown
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
— William Zinsser
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
— Pete Townshend
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
— Stephen King
I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.
— Naturi Naughton
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
— Lucy Prebble
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
— Stephen King
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
— Lawrence Block
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is the best anti-depressant.
— Fierce Dolan
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
— Norm MacDonald