Writing Quotes · Page 407

Even when I was writing the script for 'Don,' I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

— Farhan Akhtar

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

— Alice Cooper

That's my favourite stuff to write about: my journeys and the people I meet - especially the kids.

— Natalya Neidhart

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy

“At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.”

— Scott Cherney

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

— Omar Sharif

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

— Paul Theroux

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person…

— John Krasinski

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15,…

— Richard Branson

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes…

— David X. Cohen

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

— Mary Karr

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's…

— Joy Williams

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all…

— Charlie Day

If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets…

— Pankaj Kapur

I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and…

— Bethany Cosentino

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in…

— Tillie Olsen

The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital…

— Steve Toltz

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable…

— Anonymous

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers…

— Diablo Cody

“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in…

— William Boyd

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English;…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.

— Marv Wolfman

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

— Mark Twain

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

— Ian Mcewan

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

— Neil Rackham

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

— Iris Murdoch

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

— Eddie the Eagle

I enjoy writing about what I and my fiance, Debina Bonnerjee, are up to in my blog.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

— Sara Shepard

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

— Syd Barrett

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

— Robin Hobb

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier