Writing Quotes · Page 32

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

I've never been a fast writer.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

— Brad Mehldau

“Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...”

— Nanette L. Avery

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

That's what my life is, writing songs.

— John Cale

Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun.

— Rian Johnson

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

— Jennette McCurdy

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

— James A. Baldwin

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

— Brian Azzarello

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire…

— Arthur Plotnik

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

— Toni Morrison

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to…

— Darrell Hammond

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try…

— Lauren DeStefano

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we…

— Eric McCormack

Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a…

— Celeste Ng

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You…

— Paul Auster

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and…

— Richie Sambora

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the…

— Anne Lamott

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake…

— Stephen Daldry

“I think it's an indulgence to [write] the other [non-linear] way. I think it's a kind of cowardice. There are places in…

— Clive Barker

Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish…

— Groucho Marx

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It's really exciting and also it makes me nervous, because I'm like, "Well, I figured out how to perform this episode, but…

— Judy Greer

I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the…

— Conor Oberst

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based…

— Liane Moriarty

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

— Ray Bradbury

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

“My writing is how I maintain.”

— Mark Salzman

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

— E. L. Doctorow

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown