Writing Quotes · Page 428

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

— Susan Faludi

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

— Ravi Subramanian

“Writers write, therefore I'm a writer! Impossible itself says I'm possible.”

— Makayla Redmon

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

— Billy Lawrence

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

— Henry James

“Jack amused himself by visualising her head creaking open on hinges concealed by her tartan Alice band, and releasing all the furry…

— Helen Hodgman

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood,…

— Craig McCracken

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

— Phillip Knightley

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind…

— William Zinsser

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

— Robin Hobb

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound…

— Matthea Harvey

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and…

— Anton Chekhov

I'd trusted my fan base, I'd trusted the my gut, and I'd trusted the music. ...the real experts are out there in…

— Eric Church

I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the…

— Michelle Rhee

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the…

— Robert McKee

I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best…

— Cynthia Nixon

There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience.…

— Holly Golightly

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen…

— Julie Plec

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon”

— Spike Milligan

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

— Ross Mathews

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

— James A. Baldwin

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

— Robert Frost

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

— Alberto Moravia

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

— Fred Schneider

“Never hurt writers. They may forgive you, but their pen never does.”

— J. Alchem

I want all of my songs to do well whether I've written them or not.

— Leona Lewis

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

— Sarah Dessen

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.

— Amy Winehouse