Writing Quotes · Page 346

Writing is nagging, fascinating, troublesome and exciting.

— Mani Ratnam

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

— Carrie Fisher

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

— Ralph Fletcher

“Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.”

— C. Kennedy

My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'

— Casey Wilson

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

Aussie actors and writers and crews, we really band together. Its like a family.

— Madeleine Madden

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

— Anton Chekhov

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself.…

— Kevin Eubanks

I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany.

— Bill Burr

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being…

— James Franco

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.…

— Tarun Betala

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated…

— Ted Dwane

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

— Ricky Gervais

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start…

— Edward Albee

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…

— Mark Twain

“The ‘I’ [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this ‘I’ uses a language that is…

— Monique Wittig

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly…

— Lord Chesterfield

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are…

— Anonymous

I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen…

— Adi Alsaid

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more…

— A. S. Byatt

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when…

— Jose Saramago

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

— Terri Windling

I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.

— Jeff Dunham

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

— Steve Berry

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

— David Sedaris

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”

— Beverly Cleary

If I ever write the story of my life, don't be suprised if you where it begins.

— Anonymous

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

— Jose Saramago

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

— Alexander Borodin

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

— Denis Johnson

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

— Taiye Selasi

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

— Sarah Manguso