Writing Quotes · Page 420

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

— Frank Zappa

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

— Edward M. Lerner

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I love being an author - its the first job I've ever had where I'm paid to daydream. Greig Beck”

— Greig Beck

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

— Jean Malaquais

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

— Lloyd

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

— Joan Didion

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

— Dani Shapiro

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge…

— Erskine Caldwell

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in…

— Robert Lopez

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.…

— Anthony Burgess

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is…

— Audre Lorde

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

— Irwin Shaw

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know…

— Jonathan Raymond

“There are many writing courses, there’s plenty of demand for them. The shortage is having something to write about, and that can’t…

— Jostein Gaarder The Ringmaster s Daughter

I guess the main thing I definitely don't enjoy is having a job which involves selling things. You become an author because…

— Ned Beauman

“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative…

— Upton Sinclair

“The best thing about being a writer is the writer's imagination, which is, given the day, time, or date, either a paradise…

— H.L. Sudler

I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of…

— Miranda Otto

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years…

— May Sarton

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.…

— Kevin Hart

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.

— Rex Ryan

I used to do so much writing and fill my scripts with thoughts and monologues and ideas.

— Melissa Barrera

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

— Aristotle

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

“[Writers] should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”

— E.B. White

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?

— Prince Philip

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

— Beverly Cleary

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

— Miranda Hart

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

— Christopher Walken

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

“Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.”

— R.E. Fisher

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”

— Carla H Krueger

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

— Novala Takemoto

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

— Conrad Hall