"Writing" Quotes . Top 26 Short Quotes About "Writing"

"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Apartment #Months #Cost

"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Involved #Stories #Writing

"Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#People #Fields #Months

"I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Fans #Writing #Knows

"I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Accepting #Nice #Being Nice

"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Culinary #Wells #Writing

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Humorous #I Can #Writing

"The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Way #Wells #Writing

"I can write better than anyone who can write faster."

--- A. J. Liebling

#I Can #Writing #Faster

"Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Ecstasy #May #Writing

"Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Newspapers #Writing #Awe

"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Impossible #Wells #Writing

"If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Indifference #Wells #Writing

"When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Care #Achievement #Writing

"Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters."

--- A. Lee Martinez

#Waiter #Writing #Waiting

"If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business."

--- A. M. Rosenthal

#Stories #Writing #Apprehension

"If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Howl #Annoyed #Honey

"If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Long Book #Long

"Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Feels #Shadow #Writing

"I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels."

--- A. N. Wilson

#People #Thinking #Writing

"My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing #Toby

"I don't write books inadvertently."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Writing

"For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Sin #Save The World #World

"There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Allegory #Poet #Way

"Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Possession #Hops #Writing

"Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Creative #Way #Writing

26 "Writing" Quotes