Writing Quotes · Page 405

When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think.

— Dawn O'Porter

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

— Grant Morrison

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

— Stendhal

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Anonymous

“Extremist sects in Islam cultivated cryptography to conceal their writings from the orthodox.”

— David Kahn

“1-Start writing immediately. 2-Develop your skills through a course and apprenticeship. 3-Desire perfection but be practical. 4-Begin humbly and progress. 5-Develop supportive…

— Johnson C. Philip

“ (About beginning to write after moving from New York to Texas...) Honestly, there wasn't much else to do there.”

— Donna J. Stone

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty.…

— Tom Waits

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

— Nick Denton

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants…

— John Cheever

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it…

— Garry Marshall

I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I…

— Ann Packer

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

— E. B. White

“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in…

— John Updike

Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very…

— Michael Jackson

Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other…

— Michael Ray

I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down,…

— Maggie O'Farrell

A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing…

— Steve Lacy

What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that…

— Jonny Greenwood

“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had…

— Andrew Lang

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one…

— Sōseki Natsume

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

9rAMJ5 Im obliged for the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

— Laptop Notebook

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

— Sharon Doubiago

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

— Peter Maxwell Davies

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

— Allison Janney

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

— Winston Graham

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

— Frank Yerby

“Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!”

— K.D. Faerydae

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24…

— Michael Beschloss

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

— Kamal Haasan

“Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?”

— Jennifer Echols

“It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.”

— S.M. Blooding

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill