Writing Quotes · Page 507

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

— Kanika Dhillon

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

— Michael Giacchino

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

— Theodor Adorno

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

— Graham Swift

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

— Nick Hornby

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

— Christopher Moore

“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”

— Desi Puspitasari

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

— Steve Harris

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let…

— Noah Baumbach

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,…

— Leo Tolstoy

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You…

— Tom Ford

Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for…

— Susan Minot

Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I try not to be too precious about my writing, and I try to be willing to walk away from it for…

— Maggie O'Farrell

If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I…

— Seymour Hersh

I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are…

— Kevin Sampsell

In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this…

— Radical Face

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I come from theater, so I'm used to the hierarchy of an actor is just on the ladder, and above that is…

— Cress Williams

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either…

— Peter McWilliams

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and…

— Janet Fitch

I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.

— Robbie Williams

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

— Simone Elkeles

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

— Ezra Pound

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

— James Norman Hall

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

— Stephen Fry

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

— Charli XCX

I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”

— Dani Harper

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

— Steve Martin

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

— Anne Lamott

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

— Dennis Farina

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.

— Diablo Cody

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

— David Henry Hwang