Writing Quotes · Page 441

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

— Celia Brayfield

Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.

— Zia Haider Rahman

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

— Travis Barker

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

— Celeste Ng

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

— Tom King

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

— Robert McKee

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

— Avinash Kaushik

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner

Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm…

— Kay Cannon

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving…

— Abi Morgan

“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that…

— Mark Twain

“In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The…

— Woody Allen

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle…

— Ric Ocasek

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,…

— Cynthia Voigt

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving…

— Sarah Kay

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of…

— Raymond Chandler

I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating…

— John Boyne

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Here," I say. "You can put music behind it, and it will be your own." And it strikes me that this is…

— Ally Condie

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting…

— Vera Brittain

“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of…

— William Faulkner

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all…

— Ben E. King

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so…

— Miranda July

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

— Alexis Bledel

“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

— George Gershwin

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

— Brandon Webb

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

— Carol Burnett

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plentyof cigarettes.

— Hemantsmarty

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

— Sharon Creech

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

— Paul Shaffer

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges