Writing Quotes · Page 266

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

“Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.”

— Alastair Fowler

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

— Travis Morrison

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

— Matt Haig

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really…

— Charlie Hunnam

Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is…

— David Letterman

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

— Kyla Pratt

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of…

— Dan Deacon

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed…

— Patrick deWitt

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be…

— James Welch

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do…

— Joss Whedon

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented…

— Willa Cather

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.…

— Tracy K. Smith

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything…

— Wellington Mara

A time will come upon people in which the only remaining thing from Quran is its writing, and the only remaining thing…

— Zahid Abas

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write…

— Neil Peart

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to…

— Roald Dahl

MCs are authors, and rock musicians who write lyrics are authors, to a degree.

— Aesop Rock

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

— Anonymous

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

— Terry Brooks

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

— Zadie Smith

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

— Mike O'Brien

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

— Andy Biersack

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

— Arthur Miller

If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.

— Andrew Wommack

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

— Irvine Welsh

I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

— Trevor McNevan

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

— Eve Merriam

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene