Writing Quotes · Page 397

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

— Carol Burnett

“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It”

— Ann Patchett

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

— Zach Braff

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

— Wilford Woodruff

You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write…

— Gerard Way

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it…

— Penelope Lively

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,…

— Wanda Sykes

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so…

— Vivica Fox

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic.…

— Eleanor Catton

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside…

— Haruki Murakami

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in…

— Lynne Tillman

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the…

— Peter Temple

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do…

— James Sharp

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how…

— Omari Hardwick

In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about…

— Noam Chomsky

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes…

— George R. R. Martin

“I'm inspired by this tumultuous world we live in. Each day is full of angst and conflict and hope. It's a beautiful…

— Madi Merek

I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I…

— Cameron Diaz

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

— Aleister Crowley

“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.”

— Sylvia L'Namira

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

“It's not about writing, it's about how far you can imagine...”

— Deepa Gera

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

— Norm MacDonald

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is…

— Moran Atias

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

— Teri Garr

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

— Paula Wagner