Writing Quotes · Page 302

“It's not about writing, it's about how far you can imagine...”

— Deepa Gera

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

— Ellen Glasgow

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

— Norm MacDonald

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

— Zach Braff

“No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It”

— Ann Patchett

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

— Wilford Woodruff

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about.…

— Adam Brody

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The tricky thing about fast raps is not really the delivery of them; it's the writing of them, with consonants close enough…

— Daveed Diggs

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker…

— Anita Diament

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.…

— Yann Martel

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in…

— Louis Sachar

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how…

— Elmore Leonard

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when…

— Jose James

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

“What is it about words? The addictive nature of them? And when we lose them from one cherished source, we frantically search…

— J.S. Holm

“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no…

— David Whyte

“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit…

— Christian S. Simpson

I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing…

— Ladyhawke

“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books…

— Briar Kit Esme

I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with…

— Artie Shaw

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

— Aleister Crowley

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

— Anonymous

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write.”

— Paul J. Silvia

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

— Carol Burnett

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

I try to have a balanced diet. I try to write down everything that I eat.

— Kristen Welker

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

— Sue Townsend

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

— Liz Brixius

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

— John Lanchester

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

I write all different types of music, which can be a blessing and a curse.

— Eddie Rabbitt

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

— Mary Gaitskill

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron