Writing Quotes · Page 515

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

— Karin Slaughter

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

— James T. Farrell

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

— Caroline B. Cooney

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

— Eric Lander

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's…

— Carlos Fuentes

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly,…

— E. B. White

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

— Jon Watts

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that…

— Rajkumar Hirani

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be…

— Beth Hart

I don't want to be on a soapbox, but I feel like a lot of documentary filmmakers are part of the ancient…

— Debra Granik

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

— Robert Hass

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

— Roger Zelazny

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse…

— Jorge Luis Borges

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real…

— Dylan Thomas

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of…

— Udo Kier

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,…

— Davis Schneiderman

“I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did…

— Charles C. Mann

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when…

— Harper Lee

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

— Dorothy Allison

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.

— Hal David

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

— John Williams

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

— Leslie Jones

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

— Amy Lee

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

— Dolly Parton

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot.

— Walter J. Ong

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

— Colin Dexter

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

— Harvey Fierstein

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

— Aldous Huxley

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

— Angeles Mastretta

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

— Greta Gerwig

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

“As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.”

— Heidi Ruby Miller

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

— John Jakes