Writing Quotes · Page 363

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

— Willie Morris

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

— Walter D. Wetherell

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

— Justin Cronin

“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.”

— Fierce Dolan

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

“I can live with you hating me," he said to the closed door. "I just can't live without you.”

— Julia Quinn

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The…

— Gore Vidal

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as…

— Kiran Desai

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in…

— Alice Walker

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm…

— Anonymous

When you're writing about a relationship, whether it's an interpersonal one or not, it's still about communication and trying to be understood…

— Michael Penn

I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do…

— Dizzee Rascal

I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the…

— Sadie Jones

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write…

— Orson Scott Card

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it…

— Billy Bob Thornton

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous…

— Dinah Shore

Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get…

— Stephen Colbert

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men…

— William Zinsser

I used to write songs that mimicked other songs that I would hear as a kid, cos I was 12 years old…

— Justin Nozuka

To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave…

— Kevin Durant

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

— Veronica Roth

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

“Grammar is The Forbidden City of American writing.”

— Wade Hobbs

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

— Chuck Mangione

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.

— Paulo Coelho

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

— Neil Gaiman

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

— Bonnie Friedman

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

— Rick Springfield

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

— Stephen King

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

— Carl Sandburg