Writing Quotes · Page 430

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

— Kate Zambreno

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

— Anonymous

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

— Pell James

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

— Jack Woodford

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you…

— Geneva Carr

When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or…

— Gail Simone

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a…

— Martin Amis

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing,…

— Aaron Sorkin

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through…

— Gary Reilly

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

— Truman Capote

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

— John Updike

“ Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars…

— Pablo Neruda

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and…

— Bill Hybels

“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially…

— Don DeLillo

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the…

— Karan Mahajan

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play…

— Martin Landau

She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece…

— Neil Gaiman

It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take…

— Judy Norton

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle…

— Anton Chekhov

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

— Vivek Shraya

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

— David Milch

“The best writers are usually the most voracious & diverse readers!”

— C.S. Dixon

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

— Josh Lieb

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice

— Lewis Carroll

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

— Robert Harris

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

— James Richardson

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart.

— Jeremy Limn

“(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.”

— Jincy Willett

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys…

— Antonia Fraser

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

— Iain Sinclair

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

— Frank Miller