Writing Quotes · Page 340

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

“Sesungguhnya, penulis yang bersemangat jauh lebih menjanjikan daripada penulis yang berbakat.”

— M. Fauzil Adhim

“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.”

— Mara Altman

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

— Matt Hancock

“Apparently the law of Inertia affects writing too.”

— A.A. Cheshire

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to…

— John Irving

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I…

— Charles Bukowski

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

— Gao Xingjian

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're…

— Patricio Pron

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page…

— Claire Danes

I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if…

— Jamey Johnson

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

— Jodi Picoult

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't…

— David Ogilvy

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…

— Lionel Trilling

“One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of…

— Douglas Wilson

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.…

— Akira Kurosawa

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only…

— Zoe Kazan

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded…

— Louis Auchincloss

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad…

— Linda Colley

“Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a…

— Gary Reilly

I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

— Joseph Conrad

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

— Brad Thor

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

— Walter Lord

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

— Larry David

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”

— Khaled Talib

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

— M. Shadows