Writing Quotes · Page 399

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

— Irwin Shaw

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

— Joseph Stilwell

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

“The center of a poem must be a nucleus its words orbit around following the poet's laws of writing.”

— the mag man

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

I had quite a few jobs in Paris before hitting the jackpot and writing cookbooks. One of them was peeling vegetables and…

— Rachel Khoo

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the…

— Alice Munro

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and…

— Jeffrey Rosen

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to…

— Nora Ephron

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the…

— Greil Marcus

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in…

— Steve Martin

If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost…

— Tom Paulin

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic…

— Iris Chang

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then…

— Kevin J. Anderson

People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're…

— Martin Landau

The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of…

— Michael Azerrad

As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the…

— Matthew Jacobs

We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they…

— Joseph Priestley

For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were…

— Paul Auster

“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

— Chord Overstreet

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

— Vince Flynn

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

— Ali Fazal

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

I've been open and honest in my writing - I talk about everything.

— Alison Hammond

Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

— Ben Harper

“Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.”

— Sylvan Barnet

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

“You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.”

— Marie Luise Kaschnitz

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

— Harrison Ford

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

— Michael Winter

“We built a world of words and yet none satisfy now.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

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