Writing Quotes · Page 296

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

— Taika Waititi

“Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai”

— Mar Mai

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

— Paul Samuelson

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of…

— Carine Roitfeld

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean…

— Cynthia Ozick

During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs.

— Lorrie Morgan

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that…

— Charlotte Caffey

I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down.…

— Sonia Braga

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in…

— Steven Runciman

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I…

— George R. R. Martin

“The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.”

— Mark Rubinstein

When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people…

— James Lasdun

“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every…

— Andrew Mason

“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire…

— Nina Jean Slack

I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a…

— Stephenie Meyer

“I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of…

— Italo Calvino

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

“The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.”

— Sebastyne Young

“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

— Voltaire

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

— Helen Hodgman

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

— Graham Greene

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

— Stephen King

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

— Eric S. Raymond

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

— Wyclef Jean

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

“Who inspires me to write? My clone. I just want him to appreciate me as a person.”

— Jarod Kintz