Writing Quotes · Page 553

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

— Jackie Shroff

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

— Nadine Gordimer

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

— Lzzy Hale

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”

— James Ellison

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

— Charlaine Harris

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

— Elizabeth Janeway

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit…

— David Boreanaz

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

— Antonio Machado

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

— Athol Fugard

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't…

— Joseph O'Neill

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

— Alison Assiter

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal…

— David Hare

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music…

— Steve Brown

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has…

— Gao Xingjian

From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of…

— Charlie Kaufman

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on…

— Michele Gwynn

THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is…

— Joshilyn Jackson

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be…

— Cynthia Ozick

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in…

— Morgan Parker

“They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic

With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Writing lets other people know just how much fun it is in your head...”

— William Petersen

“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang leav

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”

— Violette Leduc

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

— Dan Beachy-Quick

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

— Holly Golightly

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

— George Saunders

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

— Tom Robbins

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

— Frank Darabont

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

— Neil Gaiman

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

— Donald Hall

Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.

— Stuart Blumberg

“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.”

— Dorothy Parker