Writing Quotes · Page 342

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

— LP

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

— Joe Haldeman

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be…

— Emma Thompson

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any…

— Helen Dunmore

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught,…

— Lisa Kleypas

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with…

— John Gimlette

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

— Nina Nesbitt

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that…

— Cleveland Amory

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The…

— Sherwood Anderson

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

— Ian Rankin

I enjoy working with writers and their scripts. It's very exciting to me. Eventually I would like to produce, direct and act…

— Tom Cruise

I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better,…

— Ann Coulter

I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator…

— Virginia Henley

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and,…

— Walter Kirn

When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,…

— Douglas Pipes

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's…

— Harlan Coben

“to play a solitary game of chequers, to read, to write – what should I do?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

Because when I write I like to think who would be the actor who would play it.

— Karan Soni

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

“The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...”

— Israelmore Ayivor

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

— Anonymous

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

— Mark Twain

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

— Neil Gaiman

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

— Douglas Adams

“I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.”

— Katharine Hepburn

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy