Writing Quotes · Page 147

I never write a play with an eye to film.

— Neil Simon

I am a drinker with writing problems.

— Brendan Behan

Celeste Ng is such a gifted writer.

— Lexi Underwood

You write to find out what you believe.

— Adam Phillips

“Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.”

— Nadun Lokuliyanage

I come from a long line of storytellers.

— John Kani

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

— Jeff Daniels

“Unlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest.”

— Rory Stewart

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

— Gertrude Stein

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

— Julian Barnes

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

— Fiona Apple

While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.

— Glen Duncan

“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.”

— Clarice Lispector

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read…

— Jesse Jackson

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

— Erica Jong

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, 'Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 P.M.?'…

— Noah Hawley

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before…

— Raymond Chandler

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

— Nancy Jo Sales

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like…

— Antony Sher

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own…

— Madeleine L'Engle

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend…

— Liza Campbell

All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and…

— Max Lucado

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between…

— John Green

“A Cyclops on a unicycle juggling three giant eyeballs couldn’t compare to the balanced vision my writing presents. In fact, noted linguist…

— Jarod Kintz

Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle…

— Joseph Parker

For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing,…

— Aaron Lines

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me…

— Amitava Kumar

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

— Emma Donoghue

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

— Diane Ackerman

“I’m a storyteller.” “I am a biographer.”

— Diane Setterfield

One does not consider style, because style is.

— Robert Stone

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

— Megan Thee Stallion

“Writers are readers, too.”

— Bea Cannon

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.”

— Mike Engleman