Writing Quotes · Page 536

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

— Paul Virilio

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

— Seungri

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

— Amit Kalantri

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

— Misha Green

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

— Jim Piddock

Sometimes when I do stand-up the night before and I'm in a writing room the next day, I'm sharper.

— Robby Hoffman

“I write long pieces because I don’t have time to write short ones..”

— Trey Jones

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

— Donal Henahan

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't…

— Dennis Lehane

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular…

— Bill Pullman

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories…

— Kameron Hurley

“Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of…

— Richard Castle

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an…

— Tony Hillerman

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

— Wilson Follett

Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer. . .I therefore solemnly declare to all young…

— Nelson W. Aldrich

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and…

— William Butler Yeats

There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,…

— Diablo Cody

We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation…

— Pankaj Mishra

I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else…

— Ryan C. Gordon

You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal…

— John Hodgman

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most…

— Daniel Quinn

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably,…

— Chantal Akerman

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

— Ray Bradbury

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

“I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.”

— Karris Callahan

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

— Clifford Geertz

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

— Thomas Haden Church

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews

“There is not much to talk about love, but enough to write books about it.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.

— Jack Bickham

“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.”

— Bonnie Greer

“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”

— Channing Pollock