Writing Quotes · Page 383

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

— Johnathon Schaech

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

— Harold MacMillan

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

— Joanna Trollope

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you…

— Kevin Brockmeier

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour…

— Liam Cunningham

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose…

— Samuel Johnson

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I…

— Edward Hirsch

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?,"…

— Doug Liman

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you…

— Yann Tiersen

I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why…

— Brian Fallon

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or…

— Janeane Garofalo

“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by…

— Anne Lamott

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the…

— Nuala O'Faolain

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to…

— Quentin Tarantino

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or…

— Virginia Woolf

“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

— Virender Sehwag

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”

— Patton Oswalt

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

— Samuel Johnson

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

— Shane Black

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

— Will Muschamp

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

— Terry Pratchett

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

A script writer usually manipulates his characters in accordance to the script.

— Vetrimaaran

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

— Tift Merritt

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

— Marian Keyes

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

— Sylvia Plath

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

— Dean Koontz