Writing Quotes · Page 423

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

— Judy Blume

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

— Marlon James

“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

— Jason Marsden

I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.

— Tricky

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they…

— Colum McCann

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or…

— Langston Hughes

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much…

— Kate Christensen

“Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into…

— W.B. Yeats

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and…

— Felix Dennis

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional…

— Katherine Paterson

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to…

— Michael Jackson

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I…

— H. L. Mencken

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“I was going to rise, do some typing and coffee drinking in the kitchen all day since at that time work, work…

— Anonymous

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something…

— Pixie Lott

Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people…

— Sarah Kay

“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create…

— Haruki Murakami

I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is…

— Bonnie McKee

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I…

— Sebastian Lelio

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is…

— Adam Rapp

“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.”

— Mark Twain

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

— Siobhan Fahey

“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.”

— John Fowles

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

— Brandon Sanderson

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

“Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...”

— Anonymous

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

— Barry White

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

— Bill Condon

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.

— Sarah Cooper

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

— Julianna Baggott

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

— Sarah Dessen