Writing Quotes · Page 428

I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.

— Richard Flanagan

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

— Joel Salatin

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

— John Mortimer

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.

— Oliver Sykes

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

— Walter Smith

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

— Cynthia Weil

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

— Nick Antosca

If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use…

— Hannibal Buress

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

— Chris Campanioni

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little…

— Nicholas Sparks

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with…

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

— Jim Capaldi

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases…

— Jay Watson

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio,…

— Anthony Hamilton

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get…

— Jack London

“I have lived my life in pursuit of the remade world... I believe in truth. I believe in truth denied any use…

— Dorothy Allison

When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away…

— Anita Loos

“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but…

— Nora Roberts

I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of…

— Bryan Singer

I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something…

— Dylan Moran

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect…

— Desmond Tutu

Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that…

— Jay Abraham

Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and…

— Gerald Asher

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

— Erin McKean

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

— Amy Bloom

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

— Joni Mitchell

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

— Philippe Falardeau

“Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.”

— Ella J. Fraser

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

— Anne Enright

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

— Jeanette Winterson

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

— C. S. Lewis

Rose are red; violets are blue; when I think of you, my writing comes out corny.

— Anonymous

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've been writing for so long I got a lot of different ways to write.

— Rakim

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

— Stephen King

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

— Michael Connelly

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

— Richard Brautigan

“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

— Kurt Vonnegut