Writing Quotes · Page 24

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like…

— Kelly Link

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They…

— Emma Donoghue

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always…

— Rob Lowe

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe…

— Roy Blount, Jr

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own…

— Steven Knight

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy,…

— Josh Widdicombe

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life,…

— India Arie

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My…

— Julia Stiles

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the…

— Elie Wiesel

When you are writing the story of of your life never lend out your pen

— Anonymous

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a…

— Michelle J. Howard

I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into…

— Lanford Wilson

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Don't be the forgotten voice in an unwritten book. Ikke bli den glemte stemmen i en uskreven bok.”

— Atle Jarnæs Lerøy

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are…

— John Steinbeck

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action…

— Norman Mailer

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It…

— Larry Clark

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it…

— Tony Benn

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

— John David Washington

In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could…

— Garrett Hedlund

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

— Marianne Moore

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry