Writing Quotes · Page 291

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

— Anna Kamienska

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

— William Shatner

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

— Ravi Subramanian

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

— Andy Wachowski

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

— Ernest Hemingway

“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to…

— Agatha Christie

Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.

— Peter Vidmar

Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any…

— Alan Brewer

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

— Ian Rankin

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.…

— Joan Didion

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to…

— LaToya Jackson

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as…

— Winifred Holtby

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern…

— Nicholas Sparks

I either wrote at the end of the night or sometimes in the morning. Sometimes they were full entries, or others I…

— Andy Cohen

“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and…

— Émile Zola

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought…

— Gao Xingjian

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough…

— Ben Fountain

My friend was just at my house for a couple days and she was going through my writing, and she grew silent.…

— Naquitta Faith

“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.…

— Louis Simpson

Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay…

— Rollo May

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

— Tukaram

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

— Paul Simon

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

— John Legend

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

— Iris Murdoch

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

— Tea Obreht

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

— Per Mertesacker

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.”

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

— Jill Ker Conway

President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.

— James B. Stewart

I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.

— Trentemøller

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

— Dave Davies

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

— Ben Yagoda

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

— Charles Frazier

“The writing does not define me, but says something about who I am.”

— Liv-Christine Hoem