Writing Quotes · Page 222

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

— Billy Wilder

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

— Chris Jericho

“Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult”

— Anne Sigismund Huff

Writing a love poem is like writing your heart on paper

— Anonymous

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The best stories ever written are the these were inspired by it endings.”

— Sameh Elsayed

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

— Denise Levertov

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

— Cynthia Weil

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the…

— George Saunders

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what…

— Melissa Bank

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It…

— Junot Diaz

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;…

— Tom Stoppard

“When writing a story about your life, and the people around you? Don’t let another nigga hold the pen. Period. – Montana.”

— Desiree M. Granger

“It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity,…

— Witold Gombrowicz

To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to…

— Common

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one…

— Blake Crouch

“Food should figure in the writing of Adivasi identity. In villages far off the road, all the food – meat, fish, kuccha,…

— Madhu Ramnath

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can…

— Edward Albee

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has…

— Jennifer Aniston

For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that…

— Hermann Hesse

Try keeping yourself busy. Whether that is reading, writing, creating, or watching a movie.. Keep your mind off of your worry and…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

— Anonymous

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

— Lisa Lutz

“Whenever I see a grammatical error in my writing I feel like I'm standing in Central Park naked.”

— Rae

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

— Judith Rossner

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

— Peter James

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

— Stephen Karam

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

— Haruki Murakami

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

— Helene Hanff

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

— Richard Flanagan

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.

— Joan Didion

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

— Peter Carey

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

— Peter Straub

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

— Mark E. Smith

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

— Wally Lamb