Writing Quotes · Page 315

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

— Jessica Hagedorn

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

— Susan Sontag

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

— Carrie Brownstein

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

— Ron Howard

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

Aussie actors and writers and crews, we really band together. Its like a family.

— Madeleine Madden

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one…

— Louis L'Amour

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because…

— Sandra Cisneros

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of…

— Dan Deacon

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

— Kyla Pratt

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is…

— David Letterman

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really…

— Charlie Hunnam

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

— David Remnick

I had the lyric 'Chip Don't Go' and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like…

— Mat Kearney

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many…

— Fanny Fern

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The…

— Ted Alexandro

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the…

— Dav Pilkey

I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read…

— Tiffany Haddish

I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made…

— Gail Simone

I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same…

— William Powell

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume…

— Dar Williams

“Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.”

— C. Kennedy

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

— Ralph Fletcher

My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'

— Casey Wilson

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

— David Sedaris

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

— Steve Berry

I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

— Jeff Dunham

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”

— Beverly Cleary

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

— Terri Windling

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

— Anton Chekhov

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

— Alexander Borodin

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

If I ever write the story of my life, don't be suprised if you where it begins.

— Anonymous

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz