Writing Quotes · Page 194

I write to explore all the things I am afraid of.

— Joss Whedon

I write the best when I'm sitting on my couch.

— Laufey

I find it hard to write in the first person.

— Michiko Kakutani

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

— Gao Xingjian

I talk out the lines as I write them.

— Tennessee Williams

“Only write a story that only you can write. ”

— Alysha Speer

We are all writing God's poem.

— Anne Sexton

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

— Byron Katie

“If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.”

— Hans Zimmer

no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro)

— Stephenie Meyer

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

— Judith Guest

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan

Do you have the time? [Tells you the time] No, the time to write down my number?

— P

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When I was in grade school, they told me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. I…

— Anonymous

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well,…

— Matias Tellez

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

— Thelma Ritter

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

— Bonnie Hammer

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

— Andy Rooney

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what…

— Wallace Shawn

“At first she thought the writing would be easy. She was extremely confident in her ability to dream, to imagine, and she…

— N. Scott Momaday

It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph…

— Martin Amis

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice…

— Harold Pinter

I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the…

— Jools Holland

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get…

— William Zinsser

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My interest in writing is not new.

— Richa Chadha

But authors before they write should read.

— Fanny Burney

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

— Stanley Kunitz

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

— John Osborne

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

I need to meet people to be able to write.

— Vikas Swarup