Writing Quotes · Page 231

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto Cuz where else in death do I get to go?”

— Carlos Salinas

“Writing should beguile us, not just take us from A to B to Zzzzz”

— Kevin Ansbro

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

— John 5

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

— Leslie Banks

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is…

— O. Henry

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be…

— Ruby Bentall

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making…

— James Mercer

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

— Jodi Picoult

“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more…

— Richard Thomas

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be…

— Sy Montgomery

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever…

— Viv Albertine

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect,…

— Zoe Weil

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and…

— Erica Jong

Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But…

— Nancy Garden

It's crazy how your mind works because you can receive hundreds and thousands of all these love posts and all this good…

— Danielle Brooks

People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize…

— Matthew Quick

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books,…

— Augusten Burroughs

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

— Matt Groening

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

— Richard Price

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

— Amor Towles

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

— Blake Butler

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

— Ernest Gaines

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

— Garth Stein

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

— Mike O'Brien

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

— John Tavener

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

— Amelie Nothomb

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

— Anonymous

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

— Susan Sontag