Writing Quotes · Page 226

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

— Ian Mcewan

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

— Neil Rackham

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

— Mark Twain

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

— Marv Wolfman

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

— Steven Wilson

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater…

— Hermann Oberth

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what…

— Mikey Madison

I've always liked police-blotter kind of writing, or the writing of a policeman, right to the point and hardboiled. That's how I…

— Jonathan Ames

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say…

— Ernest Borgnine

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life…

— Jillian Medoff

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many…

— Kevin Spacey

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to…

— E. B. White

I hate the star part of the business. I like the singing, and writing and all that goes with it. But I…

— Alan Jackson

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,…

— Tennessee Williams

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in…

— Aminatta Forna

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass…

— Sharon Gless

“INVENTING A WRITING system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. The first scribes had to…

— Jared Diamond

The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer.…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is…

— Rachel Cusk

When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this…

— Thomas Hampson

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write…

— Mat Johnson

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D.

— D Michael Hardy

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

— Farhan Akhtar

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

— Alice Cooper

That's my favourite stuff to write about: my journeys and the people I meet - especially the kids.

— Natalya Neidhart

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

— Nate Ruess

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

— James Patterson

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like…

— Courtney Barnett

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

— Sarah Mlynowski

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

— Hillary Clinton

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

— Lidija Dimkovska