Writing Quotes · Page 1,033

I really dig the writers, and I think they challenged me for the most part throughout the journey on the show. If…

— William Fichtner

“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly…

— Anton Chekhov

Be ruthless about protecting writing days…althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have…

— J. K. Rowling

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a…

— Orson Scott Card

Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort…

— Michael Ian Black

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to…

— Pankaj Kapur

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going…

— John Barrowman

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful…

— Sonnia Kemmer

There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I…

— Juliet Marillier

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art…

— Vito Acconci

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“What Is Fair Process? The theme of justice has preoccupied writers and philosophers throughout the ages, but the systematic study of fair…

— Harvard Business Review

When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and…

— Chinua Achebe

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself…

— George Bernard Shaw

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

— Peter Turchi

“I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or…

— Rachel Hawkins

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth…

— Audre Lorde

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

— Gertrude Atherton

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great…

— Joel Klein

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

— Matthea Harvey

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me…

— Naomi Novik

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can…

— Samuel Beckett

“Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I'm not institutionalised by 30 I'll seriously question the judgement of…

— Jack Tate

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I think it wasn't until I came out that I was like, 'OK, I'm ready to share my music now' because a…

— G Flip

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell…

— Ethan Hawke

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as…

— Don DeLillo

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get…

— Neil Gaiman

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the…

— Etgar Keret

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do…

— Sam Shepard

You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how…

— Andrew Shaffer

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to…

— Lily Rabe

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

— Simon Heffer

I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people…

— Natalia Lafourcade

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

— William Faulkner