Writing Quotes · Page 343

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

— Evangeline Lilly

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

— Anthony Minghella

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

— Emily Gould

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

— Anton Chekhov

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

— Waldemar Januszczak

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

— Anonymous

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got…

— Edie Falco

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with…

— Suzy Kassem

“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice.…

— Hope Mirrlees

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader…

— Lee Pace

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading…

— Karin Slaughter

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous…

— Slavoj Žižek

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be…

— Felicity Jones

“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies…

— Kate DiCamillo

“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the…

— Ron Dakron

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other…

— Bonnie McKee

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humouring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humour?' said…

— George Eliot

I don't know what's coming down the pike in 'Gotham.' Part of me goes, 'Man, I just wish I could be in…

— Donal Logue

I think longer that you sit on a screenplay the longer you sit. I'm a firm believer that you can write the…

— Todd Farmer

They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am…

— Anonymous

There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a…

— Scott Snyder

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to…

— Jason Silva

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ― Mark Twain”

— Russell Blake

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

— Teri Garr

I often wonder, What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing K .

— Anonymous

“[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM.”

— John Gardner

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

— Bruce Feiler

“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.”

— Ray Bradbury

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

— Bill Viola

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

— Manuel Puig

“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”

— Christopher Bram

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

— Ryan North

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

— Judy Woodruff

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

— Truman Capote

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

— Herta Muller

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

— Marianne Faithfull