Writing Quotes · Page 344

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

— Julian Barnes

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

— James Richardson

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

— Woody Allen

We write about everything; we are very honest when we write.

— Perrie Edwards

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”

— Dorothy Gallagher

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

— Edward Said

“From what I saw the plurality of students and faculty had been educated exclusively in the tradition of writers like William Gaddis...”

— Junot Díaz

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good…

— Craig Finn

Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me…

— Ryan North

You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate…

— Simon Pegg

I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and…

— Woody Allen

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd…

— Ali Liebegott

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was…

— Anthony Minghella

Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas…

— Vanessa Bayer

“I broke with the academic style because I decided that life is very short, very mysterious, and I didn't have the time…

— Mev Puleo

“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no…

— Pierre Janet

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other…

— Graham Greene

“In this book industry we have different kinds of birds; excepting one; all having in common that they are ONLY watchers and…

— Edward Drobinski

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing…

— Walter Mosley

Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you…

— Deborah King

Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can…

— Claude Debussy

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

— Joseph Kanon

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

— Paul Buchheit

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

— Edward Young

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

— Renee Watson

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

— Rick Reilly

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

— Keshia Chante

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

— Chris Claremont

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

— Will Self

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Don't let life be what you read; Let it be what you write.”

— Samantha Santiago

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

— Lauren Daigle

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

— Ernest Hemingway

Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.”

— Christy Hall