Writing Quotes · Page 307

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”

— Thomas Moore

We want to celebrate John Sullivan's writing, and hope we've done it justice.

— Paul Whitehouse

“I don't like to write. But I love having written. ”

— Michael Kanin

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

— Martha Grimes

“If it’s not truth, Don’t remember it, Don’t write it down, Don’t say it.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

— Arthur Smith

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized…

— Helen Fielding

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to…

— William Golding

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing…

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots…

— Christine Lavin

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll…

— Matt LeBlanc

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read…

— Robert E. Howard

I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it…

— Dennis Cooper

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like…

— Jason Bateman

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like…

— Anne Sexton

My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as…

— Simon Sinek

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it,…

— David Mccandless

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and…

— Adam Roberts

My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by…

— Carolee Schneemann

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain…

— Gore Vidal

“We keep drifting in time but do not pause to even think and reflect for a while. Life is truly lived in…

— Avijeet Das

“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

— Wayne Coyne

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

— Sebastian Lelio

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

— Ree Drummond

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

— Aaron Paul

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

— Dominick Dunne

From the moment I first saw you, my writings has been you.

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

— Jeff Baena

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan

For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.

— Kate Mosse

You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy.

— Michael Kilby

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

— Jessa Crispin

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald