Writing Quotes · Page 365

“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.”

— Elizabeth Winder

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

— Tim Crouch

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

— Pablo Neruda

“If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

— Norman Podhoretz

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

— Vernor Vinge

It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod…

— Neal Shusterman

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is…

— Robert Adams

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any…

— Ben Schwartz

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

— Erich Auerbach

“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be…

— Florence Nightingale

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.”

— Alan McCluskey

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which…

— David Bennun

I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a…

— Zoe Kazan

“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain…

— Denise Gigante

My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's…

— Noah Hawley

At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel…

— Nasim Pedrad

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best…

— Jean Smart

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

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— Laptop Review

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

— Hill Harper

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

— Maxine Kumin

“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.”

— Rayne Hall

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

— Joan D. Vinge

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

— Emma Thompson

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm absolutely open to scripts written by someone else.

— Rajkumar Hirani

The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller.

— Stan Lee

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre”

— Shannon MacLeod

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

— Debbie Harry

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

— Saul Bellow