Writing Quotes · Page 363

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

— Dave Barry

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

— Patton Oswalt

“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don't write it down it decomposes in my head.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

I've always written about stuff I have gone through.

— Adam Gontier

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

— Roy Peter Clark

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

— Michael Caine

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had…

— Ben Lerner

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we…

— Scott Turow

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,…

— Lytton Strachey

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

— Ambrose Bierce

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous…

— Lillian Hellman

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think…

— Monica Ali

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of…

— Brad Meltzer

“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's…

— William Gibson

When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me…

— Kelli O'Hara

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually…

— Daniel Craig

“With Milch fully in charge of the writing process — or, in many cases, the rewriting process — it became all-consuming. When…

— Alan Sepinwall

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If…

— Adam Rapp

Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose…

— James Kenneth Stephen

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long…

— Paulo Coelho

“Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...”

— Belle Whittington

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

— Nicholas Sparks

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

— Ben Bova

“When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.”

— Sonia Rumzi

“A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.”

— Bryant McGill

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

— Steven Wright

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

“The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond”

— J.L. Bond

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

— Jeon Yeo-been

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore