Writing Quotes · Page 399

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

— Jason Lee

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

— James Thurber

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”

— John J. Winters

“Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”

— Coco J. Ginger

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

— Michael Pollan

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

— Violante Placido

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink…

— Colson Whitehead

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is…

— Ricky Jay

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

— Ray Bradbury

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they…

— David Almond

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask…

— Dirk Benedict

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon…

— Lee Smith

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself?…

— Enya

“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,…

— Omar Khayyam

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those…

— Newt Gingrich

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why…

— Lena Waithe

“I wish you would, because I’m not sure how long I can put up with this.” “I’ll bet you can put up…

— Jennifer Echols

I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that…

— Junot Diaz

“I've recently noticed how often I find my characters on a tropical beach during some part of many of my stories. There’s…

— Annette Broadrick

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things.…

— Mel Gibson

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad…

— F. Sionil Jose

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

“The purpose of life is to see,” the writer Jack Turner”

— Terry Tempest Williams

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

— Amit Kalantri

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

— Natalie Prass

“The future remains unwritten, but I'm writing as fast as I can!”

— Bill DeSmedt

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

— Florence Littauer

“Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.”

— Courtney Worth Young

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

— Sean Durkin

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

— Annie Dillard

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

— Umera Ahmad

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

— Stefflon Don

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon