Writing Quotes · Page 36

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The good writers touch life often.”

— Ray Bradbury

Writing forces consciousness.

— Melody Beattie

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

— Philip Kaufman

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

— Ronald D. Moore

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

— Michael Cretu

I take talking as seriously as I do writing, acting and stand-up. Not everybody is good at talking.

— Robby Hoffman

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child

— Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

— Glenn Branca

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

— Richard Ford

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

“Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.”

— Ian McEwan

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just…

— Teryl Rothery

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of…

— Joan Baez

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things…

— Michael McIntyre

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that…

— Sydney Pollack

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are…

— Harlan Ellison

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the…

— Alistair Cross

“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something…

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to…

— Sasheer Zamata

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are…

— Amy Waldman

That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't…

— Leigh Whannell

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out…

— Jenny Han

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns…

— Knut Hamsun

I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to…

— Joan Collins

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction…

— Rick Springfield

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,…

— Susan Fletcher

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

— Erma Bombeck

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

— Derek Walcott

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

— Zane Grey

I like to direct what I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

— Dorothy West

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner