Writing Quotes · Page 42

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

— Ray Bradbury

“Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...”

— Nanette L. Avery

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

“Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.”

— Arzum Uzun

That's what my life is, writing songs.

— John Cale

“I love to write...and so I do...”

— William Petersen

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

— Mason Cooley

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

— Tony Gilroy

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

— William S. Burroughs

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

— Joaquin Andujar

“With right fashion, every female would be a flame.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, fun is being with people I trust and love... and writing poetry.

— Kunal Kapoor

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

— Lorrie Moore

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

— John Green

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

It is true I've written songs for other performers; I've worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others.

— Chesney Hawkes

My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie"…

— Alissa Nutting

I hate when I'm about to write something inspirational and I puke all over my phone and have to get a new…

— Nikhil Saluja

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,…

— Janet Evanovich

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do…

— Charlie Murphy

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,…

— Story Musgrave

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet…

— E. B. White

“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors…

— Rachael Taylor

Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.…

— Mr. T

You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've…

— Chuck Wendig

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones…

— Frank Pittman

It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of…

— Sam Shepard

“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to…

— Keneth Warren

“I could write more, but that is all that matters.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“If you get the urge, then write about it.”

— Terry Brooks

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

— Nell Scovell

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

— George Crabbe

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

— Judy Blume

Art is craft, not inspiration.

— Stephen Sondheim

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

— Beth Lisick