Writing Quotes · Page 351

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.

— Haruki Murakami

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think…

— Bill Gates

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty…

— Steven Johnson

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only…

— Lois Wyse

“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more…

— Richard Thomas

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are…

— Julia Glass

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into…

— Edward Abbey

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be…

— Sy Montgomery

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do…

— Kenneth Koch

“Several passages induced the shiver of aesthetic bliss in my spine that Nabokov famously described as the indicator of good and true…

— James Greer

I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of…

— Ayobami Adebayo

“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which…

— Roberto Bolaño

I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's…

— Jerry Stahl

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that…

— Tabitha Soren

“I think of rounds of editing as hammer time. Then, when they interrupt my writing, I can say... *shakes head* Nah, I…

— Brent Weeks

“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,…

— S.U. Pacat

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

— Willie Nelson

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

There are more films which are being written around women.

— Athiya Shetty

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”

— Tyhitia Green

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp