Writing Quotes · Page 276

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

— Anthony Minghella

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

— Irvine Welsh

“it is the violent of the times ,written in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

— Anonymous

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

— Jim Rash

I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun…

— Olivia Rodrigo

“I like to curl up in a quiet corner and write a good book. I hate when life gets in the way…

— Carrie Olguin

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had…

— David Sedaris

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers…

— Karl Shapiro

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not…

— P. G. Wodehouse

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste…

— Ted Allen

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

— James Ellroy

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to…

— Harlan Coben

Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our…

— Elena Poniatowska

When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never…

— Frank Miller

“Anyone who’s spent time below the Mason-Dixon line knows this truth: Southern women are anything but ordinary. Our unique, often unspoken code…

— Deborah Ford

“two brief, classic prayers written by Thomas Cranmer for the Church of England’s first Book of Common Prayer: Almighty and most merciful…

— John F. MacArthur Jr

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give…

— Virginia Woolf

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's…

— Charles Frazier

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is…

— Charles Bukowski

It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you…

— Dule Hill

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

— Thom Gunn

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

— Steve Vai

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

— Terry Pratchett

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

— Grace Paley

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

— Maurice Jarre

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

— Danielle Steel

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

— Greg Brenneman

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon

“Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.”

— John Green

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to…

— Benjamin Clementine

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

— Laurence Shames

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

“The best writings, like the best men, tell the truth.”

— Sophie Perinot