Writing Quotes · Page 270

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

— Nicholas Sparks

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

— Robert Musil

“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know”

— Patricia Hemphall

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

— Irving Berlin

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

— Kate Atkinson

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

“Some men are born to be good some born to be bad As for me I only came with just a pen…

— Carlos Salinas

I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and…

— Charles Kelley

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work…

— Ernest Hemingway

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just…

— Mark Boal

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process…

— Walter Mosley

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

— Chris Rock

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came…

— Melvyn Bragg

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of…

— Lynn Abbey

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for…

— Gary Louris

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the…

— Ray Bradbury

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,…

— Andre Breton

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters:…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

What I react against in other people's work, as a filmgoer, is when I see something in a movie that I feel…

— Christopher Nolan

If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living…

— Anonymous

I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,…

— Ned Beauman

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your…

— Jerry Pournelle

Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching.

— Deepti Naval

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

— William Golding

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

— Nina Nesbitt

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

— Edward Norton

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley

Oh, I'd been writing cartoonish music pretty much all along.

— Henry Mancini

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

— Milton Berle

“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“so little of what anything means comes through words.”

— Andre Alexis

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

— Sam Hunt

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

— Andrew Motion

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?”

— Theresa Rebeck