Writing Quotes · Page 92

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

— John Keats

“Not everything written is worth being published.”

— Anymonous

For me, my brand is good storytelling.

— Lena Waithe

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

— Elayne Boosler

I love the camaraderie of a writers' room.

— Maria Semple

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

— Steve Stoute

“I just need to sit, think, write and read.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

— Sam Lipsyte

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

— Taylor Sheridan

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

— Jonathan Stroud

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

— Iain Sinclair

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

— Frank Miller

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

— Liev Schreiber

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely…

— Quentin Tarantino

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to…

— Ernest Gaines

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our…

— Valerie Miner

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you…

— R.M. Engelhardt

I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another…

— Dean Lewis

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would…

— Ridley Scott

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to…

— W. Clement Stone

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics,…

— Christian Kane

At the beginning of 'Friends,' Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director,…

— Christina Pickles

I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human…

— Richard Grossman

Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and…

— Lauren Weisberger

“A romance is never just a romance, there's adventure, mystery and movement. You need a grand, dramatic setting - the Swiss Alps…

— Ida Pollock

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to…

— Tom Stoppard

It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus.…

— Rick Riordan

“Chortle” is never the answer.”

— Therin Knite

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

— Tracy Kidder

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

— John le Carre

I've never been a confessional writer.

— KT Tunstall

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

— Rebecca Hall

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

— Yves Klein

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser