Writing Quotes · Page 199

There's a sucker born every minute.

— P. T. Barnum

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

— Lena Waithe

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

I like films to be complete in their written form.

— Patrice Leconte

You write like you're in love.

— Anonymous

“You give me the duty to write about love”

— Nicola An

“[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on.”

— John Merriman

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

— Edmund Waller

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

— Jihae

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

— Zadie Smith

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

— Ron Carlson

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to set my books. But as the characters come first, who they…

— Kate Walker

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's…

— Miranda Hart

A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than…

— Oscar Hijuelos

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,…

— Toni Morrison

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches.…

— Stephen King

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case…

— Christopher Reeve

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there…

— Joe Haldeman

“yet, I have spent my literary career writing loving odes to my drunken and unreliable father. I have, in a spectacular show…

— Sherman Alexie

'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the…

— Rachel Shenton

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things.…

— Kip Moore

“We sometimes think of compassion as ‘kind intention.’ The Gospel writers meant more than that. The word actually means, ‘to have trembling…

— Ben Dailey

Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them…

— Mark Dvoretsky

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write.…

— Ellen Kushner

What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we…

— Stanley Fish

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in…

— Alain de Botton

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

— Zane Grey

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

— Michael Cretu

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

— Erma Bombeck

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

Writing forces consciousness.

— Melody Beattie

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman