Writing Quotes · Page 339

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

— Xavier Dolan

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full…

— Ben Okri

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile…

— Bentley Little

“Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous…

— Alexander Pope

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to…

— Common

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked…

— S. E. Hinton

My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work…

— Hope Larson

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz…

— Michael Easton

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can…

— Timothy Weah

If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

I was given a pen not to write anything but just to make me feel how it is to hold something full…

— Anonymous

There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them…

— Antonin Sertillanges

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say.…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I think as more people get more aware, people get more defensive. And when I say that, I mean people who are…

— Rowan Blanchard

I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress…

— Aaron McGruder

Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In…

— Rod Serling

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

— Dave Allen

“Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

— Stephen King

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

— Peter Frampton

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

— Melanie Martinez

“You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.”

— William Packard

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

— Bell Hooks

“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”

— Hélène Cixous

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

— Firoozeh Dumas

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

— Emer Kenny

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson