Writing Quotes · Page 519

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

— Martin Amis

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

— Allison Silverman

I grew up loving cartoons, comics, magic, and writing.

— Paul Dini

I was writing songs in my room for like six year, not showing anyone.

— Dean Lewis

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

— Amy Adams

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the…

— Peter Cochrane

Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied

— Anthony Brode

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

— Ernst Junger

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,…

— Carol Burnett

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote…

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the…

— Aristotle

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is -…

— George Saunders

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and…

— Matt LeBlanc

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I…

— Ian Frazier

You grow as a writer when you learn how to make songs flow from start to finish. That's the best song, when…

— Ross Lynch

Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do…

— Jack Dorsey

“But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will…

— George Saunders

Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking…

— Rebecca Serle

“There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I…

— Patricia Lockwood

You work for it. You don't have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He's…

— Brendan Gleeson

I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.

— Natalie Prass

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

— James Boswell

“The sky is a tight gray sheet of Baroque prose pulled snug”

— Brandi L. Bates

I throw right-handed, I write right-handed, golf right, everything.

— Jack Draper

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

— Nicole Brossard

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

— Nick Rhodes

There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is…

— Terry Pratchett

There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.

— Ryan Tedder

You have to write about what's inside you. If I have to get something out, I'll do it.

— Aesop Rock

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

— Gore Vidal

“I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.”

— Jason E. Hodges

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

— Groucho Marx

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

— Jeremy Larner

“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.”

— David Mitchell

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

— James Garner

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter