Writing Quotes · Page 345

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

— Howard Hawks

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

— R. Kelly

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

— Kevin Dillon

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

— Lizz Winstead

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

— Anonymous

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

— Michael Connelly

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.…

— Zadie Smith

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?…

— Jodi Picoult

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I…

— Gillian Jacobs

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their…

— Barbara Kingsolver

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what…

— Brian Posehn

Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.

— Jeffrey Steele

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

— Paul Walter Hauser

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put…

— Sally Rooney

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life…

— Nadine Gordimer

I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many…

— Miranda July

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by…

— Helene Hanff

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was…

— Hillary Clinton

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV…

— Denise Duhamel

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of…

— Russell Baker

Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity…

— Joseph Priestley

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

— Robert Sheckley

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

— Julian Clary

“To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

— Isabel Allende

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

— Nikki Giovanni

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

— John Travolta

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

— Jessica Hagedorn

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

— Carrie Brownstein

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

— Susan Sontag

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

— Ron Howard

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

— Stephen King

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

— Sheryl Crow

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

— Carl Reiner

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

— Kate Winslet