Writing Quotes · Page 427

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

— Poppy Z. Brite

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

— Marie Lu

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.”

— Stephanie Lennox

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

— Sam Shepard

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

— Rachel Carson

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

— Craig Mazin

I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than…

— Jon Hopkins

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and…

— Mac Davis

You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just…

— Steph McGovern

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

— Sol Stein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Martin Luther…

— Anonymous

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't…

— Ray Bradbury

Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send…

— Ian Rankin

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a…

— Philippe Garrel

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can…

— Kate Voegele

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so…

— Mary Russell Mitford

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must…

— Ma Jian

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like…

— George Mastras

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go…

— John Trudell

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a…

— George R. R. Martin

Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and…

— Osama Alomar

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

— Donovan

“Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.”

— Benjamin R. Smith

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

— Irwin Shaw

I always say being a writer is the best gig around. I love it.

— Rebecca Serle

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

— Nick Nolte

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the…

— Kay Ryan

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

— Michael Rosen

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

— Kurt Tucholsky

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

— Seth Rogen

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

— Xander Berkeley

I don't sit down and think, now I want to have my family and then I want to write my own series.

— Joanna Page

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

— Larry David

Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

— John Prine

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

— Adam Granduciel

“Her ambition to write stories was the most visible burden of her life.”

— Sylvia Plath