Writing Quotes · Page 394

“I am the sum of my past experience. Some people have got a lot to answer for.”

— Peter James West

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

— Allen Ginsberg

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

— Stanley Kubrick

I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn't want to be writing all these down, sad songs.

— Dean Lewis

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

— Samuel Johnson

“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”

— John Wilmot

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,

— Jack Kerouac

“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.”

— Neil Leckman

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I…

— Olivia Williams

When I was in grade school, they told me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up. I…

— Anonymous

I can make music, but I can't play it. I read somewhere that Grieg couldn't play his A-minor piano concerts very well,…

— Matias Tellez

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

“If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about…

— Stephen King

“Oh, Frank. Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

— Richard Yates

I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much…

— Wendy Williams

“It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity,…

— Witold Gombrowicz

To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to…

— Common

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one…

— Blake Crouch

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the…

— Fareed Zakaria

I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine…

— Martin Millar

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular…

— Maxwell Perkins

The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa…

— Elizabeth Crook

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

— Joan Didion

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

— Antonia Fraser

I'm relentless when it comes to writing and recording.

— Sam Fender

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

— Brandon Sanderson

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

— Kami Garcia

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

— Smriti Irani

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

— Lynn Abbey

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

— Fred Saberhagen

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

— Anonymous

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

— Haruki Murakami

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.

— Ashly Lorenzana

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

— Bob Seger

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

— James A. Michener

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

— Abi Morgan