Writing Quotes · Page 402

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

— Gene Fowler

I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

— Anais Nin

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

— Sally Ride

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

— Ted Shackelford

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

— Amy Lee

If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

— Scott Adams

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to…

— Peter Drucker

There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to…

— Brett Gelman

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal…

— Alan Alda

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…

— Alice Munro

I'm always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now…

— Neymar

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I…

— Nikki Giovanni

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created…

— Noah Hawley

IU and I hosted a music program together, and she had told me that she would be writing a song for me.…

— Sulli

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that…

— Ernest Hemingway

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

— Hanya Yanagihara

You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but…

— Mark Cuban

Teeth' came about after a month or two long blur of writing and pushing ourselves to go a step further than 'Youngblood.'…

— Luke Hemmings

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person…

— Stephen Fry

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

— Ann Patchett

“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place”

— Alan Dapre

I feel the calling internally but I'm so lost on the surface..

— Raghib Clitso

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

— Edmund White

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

— Tarja Turunen

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

— Anonymous

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

— William Monahan

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

— Daniel Woodrell

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

— Etgar Keret

I should have written books instead of reading them.

— Alan Lightman

I go through my tweets while writing and be like, 'Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.'

— Jaboukie Young-White

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

— Anonymous