Writing Quotes · Page 217

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

— Parker Posey

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

— Bob Dylan

“Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.”

— Innocent Eneojo Felix

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

— Simone Elkeles

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

“I could write a million poems Wish you 'd under- stand”

— Adnan Shafi

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so…

— Patrick deWitt

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence.…

— Stephen Hough

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

— Rupert Holmes

I got dumped off 'The Iron Lady' a month before they started shooting, and then they brought two new writers on. Then…

— Abi Morgan

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,…

— Danielle Steel

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have…

— Patti Smith

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going…

— Harvey Fierstein

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only…

— Thomas Paine

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the…

— Anthony Bourdain

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I…

— Tess Gallagher

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows…

— Ernest Lehman

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would…

— Marshall McLuhan

“I write that I will learn a language and take up the piano. Margaret can teach me. This might help her get…

— M.J. Hyland

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity…

— Anne Rice

“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.

— Tim Commerford

“All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.”

— Mary Papas

Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.

— Katherine Dunn

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

— Kate Bush

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

— Hortense Calisher

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

“It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.”

— Sara Sheridan

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

— Paris Hilton

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

— e. e. cummings

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

— Heather Armstrong

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

— Oliver Goldsmith