Writing Quotes · Page 272

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

— Erno Paasilinna

I want to write pop music, but I don't know how. My taste keeps changing.

— Sophie Thatcher

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

“My novels are written in first person so you can feel the emotion of the character.”

— Airambooksie

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

— Damon Knight

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

— Joseph Wambaugh

If I ever write a love song. I think I will write about you.

— Mee

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

— Nicholas Sparks

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can…

— Dick Wolf

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading…

— Anonymous

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what…

— Patricia MacLachlan

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

“The Difference between Writers and Editors. Writers are creative using one end of a pencil. Editors are more adept using the opposite…

— Roy A Higgins

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

— Frances Trollope

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and…

— Peter Berg

Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public…

— Pat Schneider

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be…

— Mel Brooks

“I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even…

— Raymond Carver

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was…

— Eckhart Tolle

As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like…

— Henry Mancini

“The most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room. The great temptation is…

— Ron Carlson

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well…

— Daniel Kahneman

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.…

— Alan Moore

“. . .the essence of Faery is all around us, written in every leaf.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

— Noel Fielding

“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.”

— Ann Aguirre

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

— Nicole Appleton

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

— Yanni

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like…

— Adriana Trigiani

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

— Jack Kerouac

Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.

— Josh Silver

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

— Meg Wolitzer

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

— Lincoln Child

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

— Jorja Smith

“I can't have my perfect love story but my characters will have.”

— R.K. Valka

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

— William Shakespeare

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

— Saul Bellow

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

— Anonymous