Writing Quotes · Page 559

“the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written”

— Donald Barthelme

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

— Colin Mochrie

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

— Nancy Mairs

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

— Joshua Schachter

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

— Colm Toibin

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

— W. E. B. Griffin

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

— Arlene Croce

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during…

— John Malkovich

“I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story”

— Ray Bradbury

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention.…

— Wallace Shawn

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write…

— Ian Jack

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I…

— Mario Benedetti

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up…

— Amy Klobuchar

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice,…

— Tom Waits

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and…

— Howard Kerr

“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote…

— Robert M Pirsig

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out…

— Kirsten Dunst

“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult…

— Ben Marcus

“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.…

— Edward Abbey

I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with…

— John Barrowman

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -…

— August Strindberg

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

— Arnold Adoff

We all in the same picture but all got different poses.

— Lil Wayne

“My advice is to write during commercial breaks, and read while your favorite TV show is on mute.”

— Jarod Kintz

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

— Jerry Spinelli

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

— Frankie Shaw

“Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn't.”

— CB Smith

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

— Neil Gaiman

“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.”

— Sarah Gerdes

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

— Billy Squier

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

— Joan Armatrading

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

— Nick Tosches

“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.”

— Matt Haig

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

— Megan Abbott

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

— Rory Bremner

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

— Rajkumar Hirani