Writing Quotes · Page 541

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

— Alice Mattison

“Writing: It starts at the keyboard, and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako”

— Vincent Lowry

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

— Ari Aster

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

— Nathalie Handal

“She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.”

— Mary Papas

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

— Truman Capote

“Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.”

— Harlan Ellison

“She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her…

— Jamie Weise

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I…

— Julia Fox

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no…

— Robert McNamara

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

— Meg Wolitzer

The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements…

— Will Self

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how…

— Alan Menken

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two…

— Thighpaulsandra

It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out…

— Judith Martin

When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I…

— Owen King

I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a…

— Lauren Grodstein

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up…

— Richard P. Feynman

I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the…

— Brad Falchuk

As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more…

— Colin Hay

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,…

— Boris Pasternak

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

— Wayne Static

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

— Andrew Davies

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

— Steven Knight

“Writing is alot like religion, you need to have faith.”

— L.A. Jones

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

— Alex Clare

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

— Chris Thile

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in…

— John Steinbeck

“Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.”

— Angelica Kauffman

“If you're not inspired, just keep writing until you are.”

— Bea Cannon

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

— Chinua Achebe

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

— Sharon Olds

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.”

— Pushpa Rana

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

— Jack Thorne