Writing Quotes · Page 438

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

— Anne Lamott

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

— Cary Fukunaga

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

— Michael Connelly

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

— Dani Shapiro

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

— Brian McKnight

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the…

— Buffalo Bill

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers…

— Neil Gaiman

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music,…

— M. Shadows

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as…

— James N. Frey

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing…

— Dan Futterman

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all…

— Zadie Smith

“I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I…

— Dana Spiotta

“If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you…

— Thomas Sowell

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of…

— Martin McDonagh

It is true that ADs do not get a chance to get a chance to create or produce, almost never, because it's…

— Bruce Cohen

Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One…

— Rachel Hamilton

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.…

— Jean Kerr

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct.…

— William Monahan

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

— David Mamet

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

— Lillian Hellman

When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

— Jerry Lewis

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

— Warren Littlefield

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

— Diane Ackerman

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

— Neil Gaiman

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

— Courtney Barnett

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

— Robert M. Pirsig

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

— Samuel Daniel

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

— Sheila Heti