Writing Quotes · Page 212

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

— Henry David Thoreau

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!”

— Richard Greenberg

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

— Gena Rowlands

“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.”

— Ray Bradbury

STFc2k I value the article.Really thank you! Keep writing.

— Tenders

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

— Rob Crow

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons…

— Kent Haruf

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing…

— Margaret Atwood

“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.”

— Sara Sheridan

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think…

— Robert Morgan

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I…

— Robert Sheckley

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know…

— Owen King

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should…

— Madame de La Fayette

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a…

— Troy Donahue

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at…

— Adam Morris

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made,…

— Nic Pizzolatto

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer…

— Tom Stoppard

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations…

— Richard Grossman

I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so…

— Gabe Polsky

“In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and…

— David Malouf

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you…

— Jeannette Walls

That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along…

— George Saunders

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

— Marilyn Monroe

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

— James Acaster

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

— Emily Dickinson

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

— Billy Collins

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

— George Plimpton

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

— George Steiner

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

— Elizabeth Bowen

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

— David B. Coe

“We are the indelible words we write and our stories are open wide spreading like the song we are”

— Naledi Molebatsi

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

— Salman Rushdie

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

— Leslie Caron

Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me.

— Alex G

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

— Sonali Bendre