Writing Quotes · Page 368

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

— Tom Clancy

If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.

— Sylvester Stallone

“Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written”

— Brooke Stonex

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

— Henry Miller

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

— Jim Harrison

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.

— Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

— Adam Silvera

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

— Gilbert Morris

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

— Tony Gilroy

“I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world…

— Gavriil Stiharul

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's…

— Samantha Shannon

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a…

— Javed Akhtar

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…

— Steven Pressfield

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

— Rian Johnson

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can…

— Anne Lamott

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither…

— Lord Acton

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is…

— Michael Jackson

When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to…

— Dani Shapiro

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as…

— Jens Lekman

There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened…

— George Foreman

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the…

— David Berman

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after…

— Daniel Tammet

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

— Anonymous

“This is why I write: I believe the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary stories.”

— Lucy Ke

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

— Michael J. Fox

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

— Bradley Sands

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to…

— Dave Haywood

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

— Ben Hecht

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

— How to Dress Well

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

— Cassandra Clare

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

— Lisa See

If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period.

— Rebecca Serle

“So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph”

— Mahmoud Darwish

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

— Mark Twain

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

— Lionel Shriver