Writing Quotes · Page 37

“Writing will always be the last frontier.”

— Julie Elizabeth Powell

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

— Molly Shannon

“If you don't write, then read.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

— Erik Satie

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

Vigorous writing is concise.

— William Strunk, Jr

Television has raised writing to a new low.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

— Justin Halpern

The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.

— Ol Parker

“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”

— A.A. Cheshire

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

— Elton John

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

— Jenny Mollen

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

— Karthi

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

— Lucy Hawking

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

— John Kani

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is…

— Derek Walcott

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something…

— Patrick deWitt

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people,…

— Nicki Minaj

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

— Ann Patchett

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things…

— Ellen Glasgow

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows…

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it…

— Susan Cheever

“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books…

— Van Morrison

Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx…

— Bill Ayers

I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they…

— Hampton Fancher

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

— Killer Mike

“I wanna be the story not the one to write it.”

— Eve Halimi

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

— Priyadarshan

“Remember: Writing is drawing.”

— Danny Gregory

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

I tend to write in the mornings.

— Scott Turow

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

— Stephen King

I'm very comfortable writing.

— Ann Patchett