Writing Quotes · Page 416

“Write like you're paid by the word; edit like you pay for every word.”

— Andy Hollandbeck

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

— Lesley Sharp

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.”

— Ken Scott

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

— Jeff Baena

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

— Mick Foley

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

— Aubrie Sellers

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

— Melanie Martinez

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the…

— Fran Lebowitz

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I…

— Maria Semple

“The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.”

— Carol Morgan

“Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you?” And why did she write to him “I can’t live without…

— Carl Sandburg

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over…

— Leon Edel

For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound.…

— Maggie Siff

I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I…

— Susannah Grant

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into…

— Franz Wright

“I was curious and so for fun did analyze and came to the singular conclusion that if the woman you described were…

— Stacy Sorrells

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of…

— Anna Quindlen

“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,…

— Andre Dubus III

I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the…

— Emily Yoffe

There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in…

— Murray Bookchin

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. I've written songs that show great…

— Tupac Shakur

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

— Joshua Mohr

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

We have the best writers in the business [on The Office].

— John Krasinski

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

“A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something”

— John Gardner

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

— Kevin DeYoung

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

— Manuel Puig

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

— Geoff Dyer

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

— Mason Cooley

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

— John Taylor