Writing Quotes · Page 539

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

— Steve Buscemi

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

— Kerry King

“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”

— Robert Galbraith

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

— Lauren Mayberry

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

— Elfriede Jelinek

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

— Patricia Highsmith

“If I never received a bad review then I wouldn't be a real writer, but I much prefer the good ones”

— Charity Parkerson

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles…

— Marianne Williamson

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be…

— Martine Syms

“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what…

— Diane Warren

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

— Zachary Lazar

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,…

— Sharon Creech

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so…

— Octavia Butler

“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone…

— Ann Patchett

“If Paul brought the first generation of Christians the useful skills of a trained theologian, Origen was the first great philosopher to…

— Paul Johnson

The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll…

— Cassandra Clare

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious…

— Shirley Hazzard

In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and…

— Shirley Jackson

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking,…

— A.S. Byatt

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book…

— Wendell Berry

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

— Greg Iles

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

— Fiona Shaw

“I want to write a book called “Conversations.” Of course, it’s all talk at this point.”

— Jarod Kintz

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

— Parul Sehgal

“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.”

— Christina Cooke

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

— Boris Johnson

“Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.”

— Brian A. McBride

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

— Chaim Potok

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

— William Zinsser

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

— Paulo Coelho

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work

— Gay Talese