Writing Quotes · Page 463

I always enjoy working with Aparna Sen. She is a dedicated and talented actress, writer, director.

— Waheeda Rehman

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

— Anthony Horowitz

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

— Natalie Goldberg

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

— Bob Kane

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

— Marcel Proust

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

— Harlan Coben

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and…

— George Saunders

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are…

— Paul Muldoon

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

— Stephen King

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

— Rex Orange County

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy,…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And…

— Thomas Hood

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

— Mark Helprin

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

— Ambrose Bierce

TV writers live life of well-paid, specialty prostitutes. We have a very special skill set and we occupy one of the higher…

— David Simon

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I…

— Betty Friedan

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Europe’s earliest cookbook came from ancient Rome. In it, the writer Epicius described the recipes for dishes such as stuffed dormouse, and…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from…

— Mary Kay Andrews

When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that…

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

“I answer that I try to write true stories but that at a given point the story becomes unbearable because of it’s…

— Ágota Kristof

I wrote on the Grammys, and a few times for Garry Shandling when he was hosting. I couldn't have enjoyed those gigs…

— Judd Apatow

“This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same”

— Adrian Sandvaer

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

— Vikram Seth

“I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

— Aaron Shepard

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Writing, long term, is mentally risky but vital culturally and contributes to a non-boring life.”

— Hazel Edwards

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

— Abbi Glines

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

— Fran Lebowitz

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

— Mark Haddon

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.

— Brendan O'Carroll

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write,

— Martin Amis

I thought that everyone would just think I was a bit of a joke as a writer.

— Georgia Toffolo