Writing Quotes · Page 336

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

— Dan Harmon

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

— Courtney A. Kemp

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

— Truman Capote

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.

— Brendon Urie

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application…

— Rob Wood

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way…

— Walt Whitman

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do…

— Peter Jackson

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being…

— Mohsin Hamid

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from…

— Jack Kerouac

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always…

— Roxane Gay

“People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can…

— Muriel Spark

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there…

— Eudora Welty

When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman…

— Pierce Brosnan

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.…

— Madonna Ciccone

“Andy: But they gave us an out in the Land of Oz. They made us write. They didn't make us write particularly…

— A.R. Gurney

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding…

— Rachel Joyce

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

— Norma McCorvey

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”

— Tyhitia Green

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There are more films which are being written around women.

— Athiya Shetty

“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

— Nuruddin Farah

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Great work doesn’t make me jealous; it makes me want to work.”

— Glen Hirshberg

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

— Louise Mensch

“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”

— Anonymous