Writing Quotes · Page 563

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

— Amanda Abbington

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

— Isaac Asimov

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

— Sandra Cisneros

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

— Rebecca Skloot

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

— John Entwistle

“Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.”

— Deyth Banger

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

— Courtney Barnett

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about…

— Luke Pritchard

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns…

— James Lipton

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

— John le Carre

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

— Robert Harris

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of…

— Anjelica Huston

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never…

— Nicholas Meyer

I think fatalism and redemption are themes that help a reader organize and eventually "own" a story or character. Writing them, I…

— Linden MacIntyre

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking…

— Walter Kirn

I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet…

— Shea Hembrey

“An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills.…

— Nan Merrick Phifer

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of…

— Jake Tapper

I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best…

— Jorma Kaukonen

There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to…

— Lucas Neff

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I really started writing at the Groundlings. We all have to write all our own sketches and stuff.

— Edi Patterson

“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

— Nick Hornby

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

— Karen Russell

“Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.”

— Sarah Richards

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

— Haruki Murakami

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day.

— Chamfort

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

— Hisham Matar

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

— Ron Carlson

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

— Jihae

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

— Zadie Smith

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

— Isaac Asimov

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

— Edmund Waller