Writing Quotes · Page 121

“Sit your ass down and write.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

C.R.E.A.M isn't shit when I dream..

— Raghib Clitso

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

— Winston Churchill

Puritan age is a golden age of the prose writing.

— RMKATTA

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

— Mario Cuomo

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

— Laura Moser

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

— Richard Price

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

— Kinky Friedman

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

— Gavin Bryars

“The only reason you can't write is because you don't.”

— AA Patawaran

“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”

— Wendy Swore

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

— Bill Condon

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

— Robert Altman

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

— Matthew Mercer

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on…

— Eric McCormack

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can…

— William Zinsser

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors,…

— John Kennedy Toole

Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written…

— Aldous Huxley

“Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take…

— Moira Katson

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great…

— Michio Kaku

Getting harder with each time I write, wish I could rewind last night. I had so much fun just kickin' it and…

— Mac Miller

I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and…

— Michael Arndt

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what…

— Jonathan Franzen

I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered…

— J. P. Donleavy

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal…

— Dana Gioia

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what…

— Brian Evenson

“Writing time is for writing, not for checking e-mail, reading the news, or browsing the latest issues of journals. Sometimes I think…

— Paul J. Silvia

8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect…

— William Clark Green

[Writing is like fishing]. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow…

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

— Greta Garbo

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

— Benjamin Walker

“Edit your author as you would be edited.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths

When I write I am the real me.

— Ann Rinaldi

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

— J. K. Rowling

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

— Joseph Conrad