Writing Quotes · Page 529

“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.”

— Chris Baty

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

— David Adams Richards

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

— Dave Barry

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

— Will Friedle

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden…

— Nadine Gordimer

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a…

— Henry Rollins

By the time I was six or seven-years-old, I had learned several techniques of how to use my voice and was able…

— Wendy Starland

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to…

— Paulo Freire

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should…

— Rita Dove

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam…

— Harry Dean Stanton

“I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power. The positive and negative…

— Steven L. Hiller

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature,…

— Damaris Phillips

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I…

— Steven Zaillian

“Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at…

— Don DeLillo

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is…

— Stephan Pastis

Web series is a new format, where everything, from the writing to storytelling is different. As an actor you have to approach…

— Atul Kulkarni

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems…

— Charles Bukowski

“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic…

— Will Schwalbe

“Don't bury personal obsessions. Capitalize on them. ''The connection between personal obsession and the work you do is the most important thing.''…

— Clive Barker

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

— William Faulkner

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

— Dodie Smith

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

— Curtis Hanson

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

— Olivia Wilde

“Writing for publication is an odd hybrid of intimate self-exploration and public exhibitionsim.”

— Talia Vance

“. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.”

— Libba Bray

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

“Write what pleases you. If you please others in the process it's a bonus.”

— Roy a Higgins

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

— O. J. Simpson

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

— Anonymous

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.

— Abhishek Banerjee

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

— N. K. Jemisin

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

— Julianna Baggott