Writing Quotes · Page 36

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

— Wendell Berry

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

To write I have to wake up at 5 A.M.

— Rachel Sennott

I'm a big believer in writing really good dialogue.

— Lena Waithe

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.”

— Peter Tieryas

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

— Faith Hunter

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

— Heidi Julavits

“A word written that is not read, is lonely and sad.”

— RK Cary

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

— Kim Tae-hyung

“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.”

— Stacy Schiff

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

— William S. Burroughs

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

— Ravyn Lenae

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

— Diane Keaton

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit…

— David Boreanaz

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of…

— Jim Grimsley

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out…

— Alanis Morissette

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement…

— Virginia Woolf

“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the…

— Stephen King

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist.…

— Chrissie Hynde

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

— Ken Kesey

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one…

— Erica Jong

That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun.…

— John Ratzenberger

I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were…

— Will Sheff

“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth,…

— Margaret Atwood

If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't…

— Jason Isbell

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or…

— Melvin Burgess

“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire…

— Alice Hoffman

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who…

— Ernst Lubitsch

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to…

— Hannah Kent

There's a sucker born every minute.

— P. T. Barnum

writing is the most personal form of prayer.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

You write like you're in love.

— Anonymous

I like films to be complete in their written form.

— Patrice Leconte

“[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on.”

— John Merriman

“You give me the duty to write about love”

— Nicola An

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

I've always been into writing love songs.

— Sammy Hagar