Writing Quotes · Page 281

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

— Erin McKeown

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

— Jessa Crispin

You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy.

— Michael Kilby

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

— Jeff Baena

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan

For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.

— Kate Mosse

From the moment I first saw you, my writings has been you.

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent…

— N'Zuri Za Austin

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to…

— Cecily Strong

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as…

— Tom Ellis

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who…

— Natalie Goldberg

My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.

— Isabel Allende

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing… For he does his work alone and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of…

— Paul Wolfowitz

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the…

— Arundhati Roy

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the…

— Anonymous

Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock…

— Sarah Silverman

Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in…

— Maria Semple

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You…

— Donald E. Westlake

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

— Dominick Dunne

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

— Aaron Paul

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

— Pat Conroy

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

— Robert Frost

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

— Big K.R.I.T

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

— Lee Ranaldo

“hand writing has been shown to form stronger neural connections.”

— Jennifer April

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

— Zosia Mamet

“Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.”

— Kamal Ravikant

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams