Writing Quotes · Page 352

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

— Dan Harmon

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

— Truman Capote

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just…

— Sinclair Lewis

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

— Jodi Picoult

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making…

— James Mercer

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be…

— Ruby Bentall

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is…

— O. Henry

The reason why I'm just 'Cage' in Lucha Underground instead of 'Brian Cage' is because DJ, the writer, Chris DeJoseph, we wanted…

— Brian Cage

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to…

— Petra Nemcova

After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm…

— Steven Spielberg

“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose…

— Ted Chiang

“When did people begin to wear clothing with writing on it? Was this not significant? I visit a beach resort. There is…

— Richard Todd

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel…

— Phoebe Bridgers

“The first line reads, "As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are…

— Peter Drucker

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes…

— Joanne Harris

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

— Ana Navarro

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

— William Zinsser

“Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

— Daphne Gottlieb

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

— Brom

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

— Meg Rosoff

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

— Caterina Sforza

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

— Robert Hass

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

— Gustave Flaubert

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

— Christopher Hitchens

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

— Jane Austen