Writing Quotes · Page 388

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

“If you have time to breathe, you have time to write.”

— Donalie Beltran

“Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.”

— Don Roff

I'm lucky enough to have a lot of writing work coming in which I can do from home.

— Rosie Jones

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

— Melissa De Sousa

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

— Marjorie Liu

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in…

— Robert Caro

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a…

— KAWS

“If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.”

— Duane Hewitt

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

— Anonymous

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together…

— George Orwell

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but…

— Stuart J. Russell

“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it…

— John Geddes

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in…

— Judd Apatow

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when…

— Jodi Picoult

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is man—and of course the writer means all of us puny little insignificant creatures—what is a mere human being that God…

— Katherine Paterson

I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I…

— Emma Donoghue

Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a…

— Edward Snowden

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been…

— Jose Saramago

“Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

— Philip James Bailey

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

— Irwin Shaw

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

— Virginia Woolf

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.

— Celine Sciamma

“See the world anew and write down the bones of it.”

— A. D. Sams

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

— George Orwell

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.

— Susannah Cahalan

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

— Salma Hayek