Writing Quotes · Page 229

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.”

— Peggy Randall-Martin

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a…

— Justin Cartwright

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

— Phillip Phillips

I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing…

— Twinkle Khanna

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard…

— Charles Stross

Those who have followed my writing know that I don't think Wendy Davis has a very good chance of being elected governor…

— Harry Enten

I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are…

— Jiah Khan

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be…

— Nancy Mairs

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront…

— Dorothy Allison

When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got…

— David Baddiel

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if…

— George Saunders

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to…

— Stephen Daldry

Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really…

— Aimee Bender

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone…

— Giuseppe Verdi

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other…

— Orhan Pamuk

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

— Lucinda Williams

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

— Eric Bachmann

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

— Sayed Kashua

“You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

— Vijay Deverakonda

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

— Judy Gold

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

— N. Scott Momaday

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner

“You are not a story, your life is a story and you are the writer, write an inspiring one.”

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.”

— Sara Sheridan