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Writing Quotes by Woody Allen

43 Writing quotes by Woody Allen

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Woody Allen’s 43 observations on the writing process are laced with his signature neurotic humor. They expose the anxieties and absurdities of creation, providing a relatable, chuckle‑filled perspective for anyone who’s ever felt stuck in a mental loop.

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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

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It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

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It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

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Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

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I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is…

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I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if…

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People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the…

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When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to…

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I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and…

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I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.…

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I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and…

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“In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The…

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When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting…

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It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,…

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The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in…

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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This…

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My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in…

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There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a…

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I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman…

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With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you…

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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla…

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During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or…

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I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at…

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“ Chapter 1 . He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he…

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I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that…

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When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice…

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I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and…

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When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if…

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The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm…

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I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come…

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My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over…

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When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward…

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Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And…

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I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then…

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When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real…

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To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather…

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What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It…

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Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it.…

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In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good…

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I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,…

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What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

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I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't…

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

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There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

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You can't ride two horses with one behind.

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Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

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