Writing Quotes · Page 565

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.

— Robert McKee

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

— Tom King

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

— Carol Burnett

What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plentyof cigarettes.

— Hemantsmarty

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

— Wole Soyinka

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

— George Gershwin

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

— Brandon Webb

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

— Stieg Larsson

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures -…

— Chris Ware

I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or…

— Quentin Tarantino

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious…

— Jennifer Egan

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific…

— James Patterson

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing'…

— Rachel Cusk

Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read…

— Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have…

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A…

— E. B. White

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or…

— Matthew Desmond

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground…

— Vera Nazarian

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid…

— Taslima Nasrin

“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,…

— Fernando Pessoa

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are…

— Umberto Eco

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…

— Robert Bringhurst

“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

— Alexis Bledel

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

— Cassandra Clare

“You’ll never be a writer if you hide from reality.”

— Charles Bukowski

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

— Lewis Capaldi

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

— Celeste Ng

Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.

— Zia Haider Rahman

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

— Travis Barker

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

— Celia Brayfield

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

— Toby Jones

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

— Alan Moore

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

— James Russell Lowell

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing.

— Bob Mortimer

“The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.”

— Kay Kenyon