Writing Quotes · Page 211

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

— George Orwell

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

— Tanya Saracho

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes…

— Alex Tabarrok

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly…

— Harlan Coben

Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for…

— Hilary Mantel

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want…

— Lake Bell

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe,…

— Mary Collyer

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's…

— Peter Matthiessen

“I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount,…

— John Milton

A dislike button especially after the quote doesnt mean the lack of thinking of its writer but it probably describes the ignorance…

— Vikrant Parsai

I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because…

— Eliot Sumner

“For instance, the writer of whom I speak indulges in the millionth mechanical repetition of the charge of mechanical repetition. He says…

— G.K. Chesterton

Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good…

— Roy Peter Clark

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing…

— Gunter Grass

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays…

— Andrew Davies

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you…

— Edgar Wright

“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“One’s left-brain controls your numerical skills, reasoning, writing, speech, scientific understanding, and right hand control. It is so paradoxical how we have…

— Lee Vickers

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

— Anne Carson

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

— Philip James Bailey

“Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

— Marjorie Liu

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

— Melissa De Sousa

I'm lucky enough to have a lot of writing work coming in which I can do from home.

— Rosie Jones

“If you have time to breathe, you have time to write.”

— Donalie Beltran

“Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.”

— Don Roff

When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb.

— Kim Hyesoon

“Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.”

— Mary Papas

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

— Brenda Ueland