Writing Quotes · Page 294

When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

— Diane Mott Davidson

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

— Alice Hoffman

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

— Agnes Repplier

“Written words have power. They evoke emotion, and that emotion demands a response.”

— Jenny Hayworth

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

— Michael Morpurgo

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters.

— Sharon Needles

I see so many bands, that are trying really hard to write for a person that they've never met. I get the…

— Andy Biersack

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

— Sefi Atta

I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes…

— Peter Heller

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing…

— Stephen J. Cannell

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or…

— Giovanni Ribisi

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes…

— Graeme Base

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely…

— Kit Reed

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural…

— Brian Wilson

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to…

— Arundhati Roy

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against…

— Betsy Lerner

The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue…

— Sarah Blasko

“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to…

— Sol Stein

I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,…

— Amy Lowell

“When you are trying to find your writing voice don’t try to emulate any writer, not even your favorite. Sit quietly, listen,…

— Jan Marquart

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

— Tim Heidecker

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

— Steve Rushin

“Don't aspire to be a writer, because you are already a writer”

— Clara Wake

The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

— Zoe Foster Blake

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

— Anatole France

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

— Eudora Welty

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

— Harlan Howard

My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.

— Robert Christgau

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

— P. L. Travers

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

— Hermione Lee

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

— Delta Goodrem

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

— Anne Enright