Writing Quotes · Page 234

Life is written in PEN, there's no erasing what you've already written, so keep writing.

— Anonymous

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

— Taylor Swift

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

— Peter Sotos

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

— Sidney Sheldon

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to…

— Laurence Housman

“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”

— Richard Curtis

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should…

— Mo Yan

I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other…

— John Carter Cash

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I…

— Hampton Fancher

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative…

— Ralph Fiennes

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so…

— Bethany Joy Lenz

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day.…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars…

— Helen Garner

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my…

— Richard Stallman

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you…

— Ker Dukey

I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and…

— Elijah Wood

Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not…

— George Strait

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then…

— Andy Cohen

I don't think fast enough on my feet in terms of the writing to change the script too much when I'm shooting…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.

— Margo Kingston

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

— Ben Harper

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

I've been open and honest in my writing - I talk about everything.

— Alison Hammond

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

— Ali Fazal

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

— Vince Flynn

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.”

— Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

“Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.”

— Sylvan Barnet

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

— Irwin Shaw