Writing Quotes · Page 571

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

— Alice Childress

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

— Dana Gioia

“If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.”

— Amaya Ellman

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

— Pankaj Kapur

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

— Todd Barry

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

— Laurie Beth Jones

I saw my father writing songs and he would include me in the process when I was little so that kind of…

— Pedro Capo

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

— Mindy Kaling

I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent…

— Jamal Khashoggi

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing,…

— Max Lucado

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

— Suzanne Collins

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber,…

— James Thurber

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.…

— Robert Cormier

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks…

— Dorianne Laux

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an…

— Melina Marchetta

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies,…

— Garry Marshall

“Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself…

— Colleen Hoover

In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack…

— Terry Rossio

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first…

— Jonathan Trigell

I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that…

— Kola Boof

Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary…

— Laurie Alberts

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

— Patrick Süskind

“He has a saying: he'll only believe what can be written on a postcard.”

— John le Carré

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

— Donald Harington

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

— Baltasar Gracian

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

— George Takei

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

— Giancarlo Esposito

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

— Daniel Alarcon

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

— Kin Hubbard

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

— Dennis Crowley

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

— Maurizio Sarri

Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

— Roman Coppola

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

— Gerry Mulligan

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

— Lemon Andersen

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert