Writing Quotes · Page 273

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

— Mary Wesley

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

— Robert Graves

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing

— Peter Fonda

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

— Greg Olsen

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

“If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.”

— T.F. Hodge

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…

— Sol Stein

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

— Andre Benjamin

“The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares…

— David Crystal

My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and…

— Christie Laing

Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a…

— Steve Almond

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently…

— John Grisham

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

— Sam Levinson

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you…

— Jim Rohn

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the…

— Ben Bova

I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in…

— Richard Cobden

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that…

— William Stanley Jevons

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring…

— Seth Godin

“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter,…

— Antonio Muxf1oz Molina

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and…

— Jade Bird

Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations -…

— Seth Rogen

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the…

— Jack Vance

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

— Liza Campbell

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

— Khushwant Singh

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

— Kay Ryan

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

— Christopher McQuarrie

“He was all surface, written on by those who’d pass him, like a love hotel diary.”

— Christopher Barzak

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

— Craig Finn

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

— Lemon Andersen

“Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.”

— Kimberlee R. Mendoza

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

— Stephen King

“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”

— Sei Shōnagon

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

— Katherine Dunn

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

— Arthur Miller

Every time you write something, you say much more than you think you say.

— Vikrant Parsai

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

— Kate DiCamillo

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki