Writing Quotes · Page 41

Full purse makes no noise.

— Juhani Peltonen

“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”

— Bob Mayer

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

I've never been a fast writer.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

— Brad Mehldau

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

— Carlos J. Cortes

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

— Harriet Walter

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

— Doris Grumbach

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

— Agnes Repplier

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“With words...one can cut & kill:but also one can cure and heal.”

— Darrius Garrett

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

— Patti Harrison

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

— John Banville

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes…

— Chloe Thurlow

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.

— Anthony Doerr

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write…

— Cassandra Clare

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I…

— Alanis Morissette

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family…

— Ken Kesey

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to…

— Pete Seeger

I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.…

— Matt Smith

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages…

— Derek Bok

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't…

— James Ellroy

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both…

— Irwin Shaw

I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to…

— Steven Rinella

“1. Write. 2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. 3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you…

— Neil Gaiman

I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one…

— Alex Timbers

“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch…

— Yann Martel

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

— Truman Capote

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

“My writing is how I maintain.”

— Mark Salzman

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing Kylo Ren is just so much fun.

— Rian Johnson