Writing Quotes · Page 404

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a…

— Justin Cartwright

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.”

— Peggy Randall-Martin

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

— Lucinda Williams

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should…

— Amish Tripathi

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can…

— Paul Vixie

It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next…

— Chadwick Boseman

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have…

— Beau Willimon

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to…

— Salman Rushdie

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major…

— Alex Ebert

“There are more similarities between the writing of men and women than there are differences. Aren't we all just trying to tell…

— Roxanne Gay

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it…

— Cate Blanchett

“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the…

— Julie Tetel Andresen

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…

— Stanley Kunitz

There's a lot to be said for women who want to focus primarily on acting. Other women, on the other hand, aspire…

— Danielle Campbell

This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last…

— Maren Morris

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I…

— Jennifer Egan

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor…

— James Thurber

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like…

— Hilaire Belloc

I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that.

— Rhiannon Giddens

“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.”

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

— Elizabeth George

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

— Abi Morgan

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

— Iris Origo

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

— Anonymous

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.

— Oliver Stone

My granddad was a painter and my mum writes. They're working-class but they're creative.

— Lucy Beaumont

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

— Ishmael Reed

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

— George Meyer

“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.”

— robert m drake

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

— Nicholas Royle