Writing Quotes · Page 558

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.”

— Paula McLain

I hope somebody gives me money for writing and releasing songs.

— CMAT

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

— Tom Kenny

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

— Natalie Dormer

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

— Aleister Crowley

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

— Heather Donahue

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the…

— Billy Joel

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and…

— Naomi Alderman

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your”

— Kyung-Sook Shin

A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was…

— Robert Graves

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

— Janet Fitch

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing…

— John Brandon

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to…

— Theodor Adorno

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in…

— Carrie Fisher

I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut,…

— Samantha Power

Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you…

— Terry Pratchett

Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids…

— Barack Obama

I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate…

— Hilary Swank

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They…

— Anonymous

In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.…

— James Fenton

If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going…

— Sandra Cisneros

“For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.”

— Al Stone

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

— Amos Oz

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

— Vidyasagar

“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”

— Ranata Suzuki

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

— Dolly Parton

“As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.”

— Jarod Kintz

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.

— Meg Wolitzer

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

— Jean M. Auel

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

— Rebecca Goldstein