Writing Quotes · Page 154

All of us write wish fulfillment.

— Lee Child

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

— Barry Lane

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

— George Carlin

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am an actor who also writes.

— Mukul Dev

Sometimes I teach script writing.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

— Juan Rulfo

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

— Alicia Keys

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

— Rod Stewart

“Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page.”

— Anonymous

“Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.”

— Kensington Gore

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

— Wally Lamb

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

— Kevin Spacey

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.…

— Anne Rice

“Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. ‪Accept and respect‬ people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare…

— Deeba Salim Irfan

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to…

— Sandra Cisneros

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page…

— Joe Eszterhas

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably.…

— Stana Katic

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart…

— Paul Michael Glaser

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,…

— James Ellroy

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up…

— Bruce Springsteen

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set…

— Andre Bazin

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every…

— Anonymous

“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life…

— Rick Revelle

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating…

— Alexander Cockburn

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not…

— William S. Burroughs

Reading the pilot script, it was written in a very clear way, like the feel of the show, the mockumentary. And Mitch…

— Michael Cera

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples…

— Fleur Adcock

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night…

— Jason Mraz

I just write whenever I can.

— Elmer Kelton

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

— Galway Kinnell

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

— Steve Stoute

“Chortle” is never the answer.”

— Therin Knite

“I just need to sit, think, write and read.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

— Tracy Kidder

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

— John le Carre