Writing Quotes · Page 564

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better.

— Ti West

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions.

— Natalya Neidhart

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

— Philipp Meyer

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find…

— Natasha Trethewey

We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal…

— Vivek Agnihotri

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when…

— Chrissy Costanza

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the…

— Eddie Huang

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay…

— Larry Clark

“Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.”

— Yashvardhan Shukla

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been…

— James Salter

The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real…

— Neil Gaiman

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there…

— Mark Haddon

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his…

— Ernest Hemingway

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing…

— Eric Brown

I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the…

— Rebecca Stead

I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point…

— Karla Crome

By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned…

— Helene Cixous

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

— Leon Bridges

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

— Stephen King

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

— Brett Favre

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

— Jon Anderson

“Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.”

— T.L. Crain

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

— Paul Shaffer

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

— Sharon Creech

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

— Avinash Kaushik

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner