Writing Quotes · Page 433

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

— Robert Lowell

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,

— Steve Wozniak

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

— Karin Slaughter

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

— Carrie Fisher

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and…

— Philippe Claudel

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no…

— John Dryden

I actually didn't believe the producers when they said, 'Joy, we're writing a movie about your life'. I was like, 'Oh, OK,…

— Joy Mangano

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and…

— James L. Brooks

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for…

— George Saunders

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the…

— Charles Bukowski

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a…

— Kenneth Oppel

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so…

— Grace Paley

In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated,…

— James Cameron

“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a…

— Amal El-Mohtar

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that…

— Eileen Myles

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to…

— Denis Johnson

I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that…

— Steve Martin

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct…

— Keri Russell

When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew…

— Colin Meloy

How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal…

— Peter Selgin

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

— Dan Poynter

“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”

— Karin Slaughter

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

— Michel de Montaigne

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

— Jayson Blair

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

— Billy Joel

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

— Wes Borland

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

— Primo Levi

“...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...”

— John Geddes

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

— Gayle Forman

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

— David Mamet

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

— Shannon Hale

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

— Lana Del Rey