Writing Quotes · Page 303

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.

— Paula Wagner

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is…

— Moran Atias

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

— Teri Garr

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit…

— Katherine Dunn

Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to…

— Ann Voskamp

I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing…

— Kyle Cassie

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

— George Orwell

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a…

— Terence Winter

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

— Dan Mangan

I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep…

— Matthew Desmond

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing…

— Geoff Dyer

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a…

— E. B. White

But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all…

— Giambattista Vico

For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local…

— James Patrick Kelly

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think…

— Paul McCartney

“I am Frustration. I am Memory-Lost. Sometimes I read a line a dozen times before it sticks. My creative force has slipped.…

— Chila Woychik

“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us…

— Holly Lisle

It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an…

— Amanda Foreman

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

Writing ''etc'' on an test because you don't remember any more examples.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

— Jim Rash

“...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”

— robert m drake

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

— Alice Mattison

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

— Neil Postman

The success of 'Those Who Save Us' had an interesting effect on the writing of 'The Stormchasers.'

— Jenna Blum

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

— Anthony Storr

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

— Jeet Thayil

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

— Sam Neill

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

— Linda Daly

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

— David Bryan

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde