Writing Quotes · Page 324

Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

— Jack Thorne

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene.

— Graham Linehan

“Every writer owes something to Holmes." -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929”

— T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

— Alexander Wang

I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique.

— Stephen Schwartz

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

— Piers Anthony

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

— Caitlin Moran

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing…

— Wietse Venema

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer…

— John Galliano

“Success as a writer is within the grasp of whoever can tell a story on paper that people want to hear, and…

— Ralph Keyes

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the…

— Richard Grossman

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried…

— John Ridley

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought…

— Taryn Manning

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New…

— Elizabeth Strout

“I'm going to write to you about the emptiness that was left when you took my boy away. I'm going to write…

— Chris Cleave

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the…

— Dan Gilroy

“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to…

— L.L. Barkat

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings…

— Donald Knuth

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters.…

— Logan Marshall-Green

You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also…

— Robert Davi

Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

— Sam Shepard

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

— Hilaire Belloc

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

— George R. R. Martin

“I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.”

— Fritz Leiber

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

— Adam Savage

Whatever inspiration comes to me; I always try to write about.

— Skip Marley

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.”

— Alamvusha

“If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.”

— Jarod Kintz

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

— Dodie Smith

“I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.”

— E.W. Hornung

I want to write, and... yeah, just the normal things a musician should do.

— Ruel

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Standing for something isn’t just about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.”

— Jason Fried