Writing Quotes · Page 516

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

— Hugh Elliot

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

— Neal Stephenson

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck

“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

— David Friedman

Two weeks before Owen Hart's death I objected in writing to the obscenity and the safety.

— Sable

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

— Lisa Scottoline

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave…

— Mandy Patinkin

Committing to providing greater opportunities for disabled actors should include writing disabilities into more roles where it is irrelevant to the storyline.

— Chris McCausland

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of…

— Jerzy Kosinski

As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and…

— Matt Letscher

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not…

— Matt de la Pena

“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will…

— Arlene Sanders

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

— Ezra Pound

I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who…

— Bela Fleck

i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then…

— Ernest Hemingway

“It took a long time for me to accept that I was never going to find that something I’m really good at.…

— Maggi Myers

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everybody writes their own parts and we don't step on each others toes. When it comes to writing we each have our…

— 3 Doors Down

“Writing is a 24/7 job. You live it, eat it, breathe it... the pay can be pretty lousy, but you do it…

— Patti Roberts

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape…

— Irving Howe

“I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

— Hunter Tylo

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

— Lesley Gore

“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.”

— Edward Abbey

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

— Jonathan Weeks

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

— E. B. White

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

— Jonathan Ames

I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power

— Donald Miller

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

— Bonnie Hammer