Writing Quotes · Page 225

I know when it comes to TV, the writer is king, but to me, the filmmaker is king.

— Sam Esmail

“The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.”

— Onyi Anyado

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

“I’m taking you out.” He winks at her. “I have to. It’s been written in the stars.”

— Dark Calling

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

“The Writers curse We have to write We have no choice We have stories to TELL”

— Paul Barrell

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

— Edward Everett Hale

We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

— John Scalzi

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt…

— Margaret Mahy

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose…

— Samuel Johnson

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I…

— Edward Hirsch

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you…

— Kevin Brockmeier

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour…

— Liam Cunningham

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters…

— Lucas Neff

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how…

— Omari Hardwick

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do…

— James Sharp

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about…

— Noam Chomsky

I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I…

— Cameron Diaz

“I'm inspired by this tumultuous world we live in. Each day is full of angst and conflict and hope. It's a beautiful…

— Madi Merek

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes…

— George R. R. Martin

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

— Max Lucado

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

— Samuel Johnson

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

— Calvin Trillin

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

— Hisham Matar

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

— Ashley Scott

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

“The problem with writing, is that it doesn't leave you time to read. ”

— Corey Salter

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

— Jennifer Stone

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

— Kevin Powers

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

— Martin Amis

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

— Alanis Morissette

Usually I write irrelevant twaddle and hope for the best.

— Tim Key

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

— Bruno Mars

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

— Theophilus London

“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.”

— Stewart Stafford