Writing Quotes · Page 313

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

— Terry Southern

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

— Mickey Spillane

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

— Jack Prelutsky

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

— Alexandra Petri

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

— Salman Rushdie

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the…

— Trevor Moore

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader…

— Nicole Krauss

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well,…

— David Twohy

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe,…

— Herbert Spencer

People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval…

— Andrea Dworkin

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good…

— Anton Chekhov

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively…

— David Grubbs

The number-one rule of writing is write what you know--or something like that. So I wrote about my experiences.

— Nikki Reed

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see…

— Brian A. McBride

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his…

— Steven Spielberg

“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and…

— Sy Safransky

There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume…

— William Zinsser

I would say Jodie Foster because she's not just an actress. She's a director, she's a producer, she's a writer. She's conquered…

— Kristen Stewart

“I always instruct my students to write a great deal. Write a journal. Take notes. Write when you are feeling wretched, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to…

— Jon Spaihts

“If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create…

— Toni Sorenson

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

— Enya

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

— Aaron Sorkin

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

— William Carlos Williams

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

— Jaboukie Young-White

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

— Joan Didion

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

— Kathy Reichs

I don't think I would ever write and star in a show again.

— Mike O'Malley

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

— Ai Weiwei

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

— Russell Means

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

— Rita Moreno

“A dream in the night is but an untold story begging to be written.”

— Chad B Hanson

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

— Arthur Schnitzler

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

I liked writing, I liked performing, but I couldn't sing or dance.

— Taylor Tomlinson