Writing Quotes · Page 155

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

— Alistair Maclean

“Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.”

— Victor J. Banis

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Now there's some honest writing!”

— Elizabeth Berg

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

— Anonymous

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

— William Faulkner

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

— Lisa Kudrow

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

— Dodie Smith

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

— Scott D. Anthony

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

— Shirley Knight

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

— Laeta Kalogridis

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

— Peter Davison

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

— Jim Rash

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were the tools you have available to write a thriller.

— Jed Mercurio

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't…

— Camille Paglia

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing…

— Olivia Merilahti

“I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the…

— James DeSantis

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

— Carrie Coon

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear…

— Del Shores

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

— Rob Chapman

I am very sad to learn of Nora's passing. She was a brilliant writer and humorist. Being her Harry to Meg's Sally…

— Billy Crystal

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express…

— Janet Burroway

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could…

— Margaret Drabble

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a…

— Danielle Dutton

When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who…

— Marc Forster

Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming,…

— George Fetherling

Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it…

— Edward Norton

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was…

— Wright Morris

I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,…

— Karen Traviss

“Not all writers are sad... All sad people write.”

— Sad Girls Lang Leav

The most original novelist now writing in English.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I just want to be written about as a normal artist

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The tears had turned to ink...

— Dawna Markova

“Writing a novel is like having a dream.”

— Haruki Murakami

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

— Jeff Kinney

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

— Robert Frost

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well:”

— William Zinsser