Writing Quotes · Page 375

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

— David Del Tredici

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.

— Nancy Horan

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

— Richard Hugo

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

— Warren Buffett

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

— Laurie Simmons

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

— Keifer Thompson

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

— Chinua Achebe

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all…

— Jody Lynn Nye

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up…

— J. D. Salinger

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that…

— Uzodinma Iweala

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that…

— Walter Lang

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm…

— Andrew Sean Greer

While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know…

— Rachel Bloom

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video…

— Janice Kaplan

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour…

— Nina Jean Slack

“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you…

— John Green

I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times…

— Nick Offerman

“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear…

— Stephen King

The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited…

— Whit Stillman

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because…

— Alexandra Ripley

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.”

— Italo Calvino

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

— Merle Haggard

Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.

— Alexandre Lacazette

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

— Young Thug

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

— Eric Church

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

— Anonymous

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I'll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic.

— Rebel Wilson

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

— William Zinsser

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

— Ana Navarro

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers