Writing Quotes · Page 449

“Writing is a part of life that has to be explored.”

— P.S. Winn

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

— Matt Groening

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

— Michael Ondaatje

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

— August Wilson

but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.

— John Irving

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep…

— Robert K. Massie

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the…

— James Fenton

“A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella”

— Peter Arpesella

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

— Ernest Hemingway

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

— Five for Fighting

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be…

— Kirby Larson

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be…

— Daniel Handler

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not…

— Anne Lamott

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best…

— Jesse Armstrong

One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the…

— Jessamyn West

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of…

— Felix Adler

Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work…

— Jonah Hill

From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel…

— Henry Rollins

“Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write…

— Jarod Kintz

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”

— Grant Morrison

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not in the practice commonly of writing checks just for the fun of writing them.

— Philip Anschutz

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

— Alice Walker

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

— Ernest Hemingway

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

— Anonymous

“Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.”

— Anonymous

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

— Cheryl Strayed

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

— Colin Hay

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

— Michael Pena

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about

— Geezer Butler

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

— Fran Lebowitz