Writing Quotes · Page 207

“...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.”

— Jincy Willett

I am free to write the worst junk in the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!”

— Rachel Firasek

“If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.”

— Mark Twain

I don't write romance novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

I enjoyed writing speeches.

— Lauren Ridloff

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

— Christina Baldwin

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

— Mel Brooks

“[I]n the long run it's worthwhile to see the manuscript as a text capable of improvement.”

— Barbara Sjoholm

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

— Donna Tartt

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Write down everything you don't like about yourself. Rip it up. Burn it.

— Anonymous

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

— Billy Wilder

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

— Devin Townsend

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

— Mel Gibson

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your…

— Eden Robinson

I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are…

— Goldie

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

— Jonathan Evison

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at…

— Joanne Harris

“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.”

— Ruskin Bond

“we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop…

— Bat for Lashes

I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane.…

— J. K. Rowling

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When…

— Alan Alda

The best shows I've done, the writers, actors, and directors have been pretty much left alone - maybe given a little guidance…

— Peter Krause

“Why have I made up such a story, so out of keeping with an ordinary diary, and a writer’s above all? And…

— Charles Dickens

“And I love the beauty that anger provokes, it’s a sort of poetry, a violence of the mind that explodes expectations and…

— Djibril al-Ayad

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

— Robert Zemeckis

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

— Don Roff

I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

— Sara Sheridan

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

— Ernest Hemingway

I started writing songs at age 15.

— Vince Clarke

“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”

— John Keats

“Good writing is always new.”

— Anonymous